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Pub Ad PYQ Vault | Day 39 | PYQ (2025)
Bureaucracy constitutes the imaginary state and is the spiritualism of the State. Explain.
Thinker of the Day | William Wade
Work – Administrative Law
Views
- Administrative authorities must exercise power within the limits prescribed by law.
Courts control administrative action through review of Illegality Irrationality Procedural impropriety
Administrative action exceeding statutory authority can be declared ultra vires and invalid.
Za- Granting discretion to administrators does not give them unrestricted freedom. Discretion must be exercised legally, reasonably and fairly.
Wade places judicial review at the heart of administrative law administrative power is legitimate only when exercised within the boundaries of law.
Keyword of the Day | Administrative State
It refers to a system in which public administration becomes a major instrument of governance performing functions far beyond traditional law and order duties such as regulation, welfare, development, economic management and service delivery.
Dwight Waldo in the Administrative State (1948) highlighted the growing significance of administration in modern democratic government and challenged the idea that administration could be understood purely through efficiency and technical rationality.
