Government Works : : Why Americans Need the Feds / / Milton J. Esman.
What is the proper role of government in American life? This is the principal controversy in contemporary American politics. Milton J. Esman believes that the United States suffers not from too much government but from too little. Most Americans today proclaim pride in their democracy, but they do n...
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Esman, Milton J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Government Works : Why Americans Need the Feds / Milton J. Esman. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2000 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. Is Government the Problem? -- CHAPTER TWO. Interests, Ideology, and Culture -- CHAPTER THREE. The American Experience with Government -- CHAPTER FOUR. An Activist Government for Twenty-First-Century America -- CHAPTER FIVE. Some Continuing Challenges to Government -- CHAPTER SIX. Not Minimal but Better Government -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Progressive Coalition: Elements of a Winning Strategy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Twenty-First-Century Progressive Majority -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What is the proper role of government in American life? This is the principal controversy in contemporary American politics. Milton J. Esman believes that the United States suffers not from too much government but from too little. Most Americans today proclaim pride in their democracy, but they do not trust Washington. Esman shows how American conservatives have, for the last quarter-century, hammered away at the federal government, attacking its size, its inefficiencies, the limits it places on personal freedom, and its intervention in what conservatives believe should be free and untrammeled market transactions. Such commentators have effectively seized the initiative, and their antigovernment viewpoint now dominates the public discourse on politics. "This bias runs contrary to the main thrust of American political experience," Esman writes, "and is detrimental to the well-being of the nation on the brink of the new millennium." His book includes a historical study of public attitudes toward government and an analysis of the functions that only government can perform to ensure a healthy future for the American people and to check the negative effects of economic globalization. He proposes a set of political tactics to address the unchallenged trashing of a central institution of American democracy and restore public confidence in government.Plainspoken, straight-shooting, wide-ranging, Government Works draws on the progressive tradition in American thought to deal with the central predicament in contemporary public affairs. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Conservatism United States. Political planning United States. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723988 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501723988 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501723988/original |
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