New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State
- ISBN-10
- 0674260449
- ISBN-13
- 9780674260443
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Author
- William J. Novak
Description
"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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