The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era

The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era
ISBN-10
0195047842
ISBN-13
9780195047844
Category
History
Pages
369
Language
English
Published
1986
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Richard L. McCormick

Description

These boldly argued essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. McCormick follows the major parties from their emergence in the 1820s and 1830s to their transformation almost a century later, discussing the nature of governance, clarifying economic policies of promotion, distribution, and (later) regulation that characterized government functions at every level, and sorting out the complex relationships between politics and policy during the "party period."

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