A Legacy of Innovation : : Governors and Public Policy / / ed. by Ethan G. Sribnick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• MitwirkendeR: Balogh, Brian,; Dilger, Robert Jay,; Grogan, Colleen M.,; Haskins, Ron,; Masters, Brooke,; Mehrotra, Ajay K.,; Phillips, Sarah,; Shreve, David,; Smith, Vernon K.,; Sokol, Jason,; Sribnick, Ethan G.,; Teaford, Jon C.,; Vinovskis, Maris A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Sribnick, Ethan G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 12 illus.

From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth century. In doing so, they not only responded to dramatic changes in the political landscape, they shaped that landscape. The influence of governors ha...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction. Directing Democracy
• Part I. Creativity Within the Confines of Federalism
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Resourceful Leaders
• Chapter 2. ''To Lay and Collect''
• Chapter 3. Governors and the Development of American Social Policy
• Part II. Laboratories of Democracy
• Introduction
• Chapter 4. Governors and Economic Development
• Chapter 5. Uneasy Executives
• Chapter 6. Balancing Economic Development with Investor Protection
• Part III. Collective Action
• Introduction
• Chapter 7. Moving the Nation
• Chapter 8. Gubernatorial Leadership and American K-12 Education Reform
• Chapter 9. From Charity Care to Medicaid
• Afterword: A Legacy of State-Building
• Timeline of Governors and States in the Twentieth Century
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments