Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present /
"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 n...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I Foundations, 1780s-1860s.
- A liberal 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.