The Party Period and Public Policy : American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era.
Title:
The Party Period and Public Policy : American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era.
Author:
McCormick, Richard L.
ISBN:
9780198020936
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Trends in Historiography -- 1. Ethnocultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American Voting Behavior -- 2. The Realignment Synthesis in American History -- 3. The Social Analysis of American Political History-After Twenty Years -- PART TWO: The Political Parties -- 4. Political Parties in American History -- 5. The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis -- 6. Antiparty Thought in the Gilded Age -- PART THREE: Political Change in the Progressive Era -- 7. Progressivism: A Contemporary Reassessment -- 8. Prelude to Progressivism: The Transformation of New York State Politics, 1890-1910 -- 9. The Discovery That Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
These boldly argued essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. McCormick follows the major parties from their emergence in the 1820s and1830s to their transformation almost a century later, discussing the nature of governance, clarifying economic policies of promotion, distribution, and (later) regulation that characterized government functions at every level, and sorting out the complex relationships between politics and policyduring the "party period.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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