New democracy : the creation of the modern American state / William J. Novak.
"Between 1866 and 1932 - between the Civil War and the New Deal - the American system of governance was fundamentally transformed with momentous implications for modern American social and economic life. Nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship were rep...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2022.
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Summary: | "Between 1866 and 1932 - between the Civil War and the New Deal - the American system of governance was fundamentally transformed with momentous implications for modern American social and economic life. Nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship were replaced by a modern approach to positive statecraft, social legislation, economic regulation, and public administration very much with us today. This later turn-of-the-century revolution in governance is best characterized as "The Creation of the Modern American State." This was the second great act in the political history of American democracy, broadly construed"-- |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674275621 0674275624 9780674275638 0674275632 |