Liberty and Coercion : The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present /

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American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerstle, Gary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Abuse of administrative power > United States > History.
Federal government > United States > History.
Federal-state controversies > United States > History.
Political culture > United States > History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Affirmative action.
African Americans.
Agriculture.
Amendment.
Americans.
Appointee.
Authority.
Ballot.
Big government.
Bill of rights.
Cambridge University Press.
Capitalism.
Central government.
Citizenship of the United States.
Citizenship.
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Civil society.
Classical liberalism.
Coercion.
Commerce Clause.
Communism.
Constitutional amendment.
Constitutionalism.
Deliberation.
Democracy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Economics.
Election.
Employment.
Federal government of the United States.
Foreign policy.
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Freedom of speech.
Governance.
Governing (magazine).
Government.
Homestead Acts.
Ideology.
Industrial relations.
Injunction.
Institution.
Jurisdiction.
Labour movement.
Legislation.
Legislator.
Legislature.
Liberalism.
Lochner v. New York.
Military-industrial complex.
National Labor Relations Act.
National security.
Naturalization.
New Federalism.
Police power (United States constitutional law).
Police.
Political machine.
Political party.
Political science.
Politician.
Politics of the United States.
Politics.
Popular sovereignty.
Populism.
Princeton University Press.
Private sector.
Privatization.
Progressive Era.
Prostitution.
Provision (contracting).
Public policy.
Racism.
Radicalism (historical).
Ratification.
Regime.
Regulation.
Republicanism.
Right to privacy.
Sedition.
Slavery.
Sovereignty.
State government.
State law (United States).
Statute.
Subsidy.
Substantive due process.
Surrogacy.
Tariff.
Tax.
Total war.
United States Bill of Rights.
United States Constitution.
Vanderbilt University.
Voting.
War effort.
Warfare.
Wealth.
Welfare state.
Welfare.
World War I.
World War II.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Foundations, 1780s-1860s
  • A Liberal Central State Emerges
  • The States and Their Police Power
  • PART II: Improvisations, 1860s-1920s
  • Strategies of Liberal Rule
  • Lessons of Total War
  • Parties , Money , Corruption
  • PART III: Compromises, 1920s-1940s
  • Agrarian Protest and the New Liberal State
  • Reconfiguring Labor - Capital Relations
  • PART IV: American Leviathan, 1940s-2010s
  • An Era of Near - Permanent War
  • Breaking the Power of the States
  • Conservative Revolt
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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