Author: Keith T. PoolePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Enduring 19th Century Battle for Economic Regulation
Author: Keith T. PooleThe Regulated Economy
Author: Claudia GoldinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301346
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
Regulation, Organizations, and Politics
Author: Lawrence S. RothenbergPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104437
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A major study of federal regulation
Political Order
Author: Ian ShapiroPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814781039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
In many parts of the world, constitutions are being written and rewritten, with a great many possibilities being explored, and much that matters deeply to millions of people hangs on the results. Here major scholars address some of the most pressing questions about political order.
The Limits of the Lost Cause
Author: Gaines M. FosterPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807181951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Limits of the Lost Cause challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Above all, Gaines Foster’s work encourages Americans to confront the new divisions within their society even as they wrestle with old national—not just southern—failings.
Learning While Governing
Author: Sean GailmardPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226924408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Sean Gailmard is the Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. John W. Patty is associate professor of political science at Washington University.
Handbook of Public Administration, Second Edition
Author: W. Bartley HildrethPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780585138589
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
This bestselling reference examines all major areas in public administration from the enlightening perspectives of history and the five "great" concepts or theories framing each topic, including public budgeting, financial management, decision making, public law and regulation, and political economy. The American Reference Books Annual calls this ". . .stimulating and thought-provoking....thorough and inclusive....a valuable contribution.," and Canadian Public Administration said it is "....impressive...an extremely useful reference tool... the writing and analysis and the scope of the coverage make the volume a good investment for both government and university libraries."
Congress
Author: Keith T. PoolePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019514242X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Using supercomputers, the authors have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, Poole and Rosenthal find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 80% of a legislator's voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism.
The Republic for Which It Stands
Author: Richard WhitePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190619066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History
Author: Joshua HallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319775928
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh insights into important periods of American history, from the Acadian expulsion in 1755 to the allocation of government grants during the New Deal. This volume features the work of prominent economic historians such as Dora Costa, John Wallis, and Jeremy Atack; well-known public choice scholars such as Jac Heckelman; and younger scholars such as Vincent Geloso and Philip Magness. This book will be useful for researchers and students interested in economics, history, political science, economic history, public choice, and political economy.