Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / Samuel DeCanio.
2015
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Author
Title
Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / Samuel DeCanio.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
JK246 .D43 2015
ISBN
9780300198782 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0300198787
0300198787
Description
xi, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)905638887
Summary
"Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio's exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department's control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index.
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Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1.
Modern Regulatory State
13
2.
State Autonomy in Democratic Societies
25
3.
Civil War Finance and the American State
38
4.
George Pendleton and Mass Opinion
57
5.
Election of 1868
78
6.
Crime of 1873
92
7.
Discretion and the Treasury Department
121
8.
Ohio Gubernatorial Election of 1875
132
9.
Compromise of 1877 and Railroad Regulation
149
10.
Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Bureaucracy
180
11.
Free Silver and the Democratic Party
200
12.
Conservative Origins of the American Regulatory State
222
Conclusion: State Autonomy in Democratic Societies
238
Notes
247
Primary Sources
299
Index
305