Liberty in peril : democracy and power in American history /

"In the twenty-first century, Americans tend to think of their government as a democracy, in the sense that they view the proper function of government as carrying out the will of the people, as revealed through democratic elections. This differs substantially from the vision of the American Fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holcombe, Randall G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : Independent Institute, [2019]
Temas:
Democracy > United States.
Democracy
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Liberty : the revolutionary cause
  • Liberty and democracy as economic systems
  • Consensus versus democracy : politics in eighteenth-century America
  • Constitutions as constraints : The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States
  • The growth in parties and interests before the War Between the States
  • The impact of the War Between the States
  • Interest groups and the transition to government growth: 1870-1915
  • Populism and progressivism
  • The growth of the federal government in the 1920s
  • The New Deal and World War II
  • Democracy triumphs : The Great Society
  • The dangers of democracy

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