Jeff Taylor

Politics on a Human Scale

The American Tradition of Decentralism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states' rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary political scene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1077g
• ISBN-13: 9780739175750
• ISBN-10: 0739175750
• Artikelnr.: 39043766

Autorenporträt

By Jeff Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Quadratic Persuasion Chapter 2. The Country
Party: Agrarianism Surveyed Chapter 3. Nullification and the Politics of
State Sovereignty Chapter 4. The Path Not Taken by the Progressive Era and
New Deal Chapter 5. Southern Democrats and Selective Devolutions Chapter 6.
Me-Too Republicans and Averted Revolutions Chapter 7. Ronald Reagan:
Conservatism Co-Opted Chapter 8. Dissident Voices in an Age of
Centralization Appendices A. Two Southern Populists with National Ambitions
B. Wilson and the Coming of War C. Thomas Bayard, Grover Cleveland, and the
Rise of Empire D. Personal Links between Taft '52 and Goldwater '64