Debating the American State : : Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970 / / Anne M. Kornhauser.

The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was championed by the political lef...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Leviathan and Its Discontents
  • Chapter 2. Democracy and Accountability in the Administrative State
  • Chapter 3. The Rule of Law When the State Goes to War
  • Chapter 4. Liberal Democracy Conducts an Occupation and a War Crimes Tribunal
  • Chapter 5. Individual Autonomy and the Modern American State: The Philosophy of John Rawls
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments