Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism
- ISBN-10
- 0739175769
- ISBN-13
- 9780739175767
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 590
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-27
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- Jeff Taylor
Description
In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states’ rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary political scene.
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