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Governing the American state : Congress and the new federalism, 1877-1929 /

"The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not born in a Big Bang, but instead emerged out of power struggles within the nation's major politic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Kimberley S., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The first new federalism and the making of the modern American state
  • Congress and statebuilding in a Federal polity
  • Intergovernmental policy instruments and the development of the new federalist state
  • Congressional politics, structure, and the enactment of IPIs
  • Nationalizing regulation: the pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
  • Goods roads to fiscal stimulus: highway policy from 1900 to the New Deal
  • From healthy babies to the welfare state: the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
  • The first new federalism and governing of a new American state.