The Associational State : : American Governance in the Twentieth Century / / Brian Balogh.
In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Toward an Associational Synthesis
- Chapter 1. The Enduring Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Governance in the United States: The Emergence of the Associational Order
- Chapter 2. Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform
- Chapter 3. ''Mirrors of Desires'': Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America
- Chapter 4. Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America
- Chapter 5. Meeting the State Halfway: Governing America, 1930-1950
- Chapter 6. Making Pluralism ''Great'': Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society
- Conclusion. How We Got Here
- Notes
- Index