Ballard C Campbell

The Growth of American Government, Revised and Updated Edition

Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ballard C. Campbell is Professor of History and Professor of Public Policy at Northeastern University. He has written or edited six books, including American Wars; American Disasters: 201 Calamities that Shook the Nation; and Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• 2nd Revised and Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780253014184
• ISBN-10: 0253014182
• Artikelnr.: 40308450

Autorenporträt

Ballard C. Campbell is Professor of History and Professor of Public Policy at Northeastern University. He has written or edited six books, including American Wars; American Disasters: 201 Calamities that Shook the Nation; and Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Governing the Cleveland Era
2. The Course and Causes of Growth
3. The Transition Era
4. The Great Depression and Economic Policy
5. The Managed Economy since the New Deal
6. The New Income Security
7. The New Equality
8. Paying for Modern Government
9. The New Faces of Power
10. The Reagan Era and the Restrained Polity
11. The Debate over 'Big' Government
Notes
Bibliography
Index