Title Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / Samuel DeCanio.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The Yale ISPS series
	Yale ISPS series.
Contents	The modern regulatory state -- State autonomy in democratic societies -- Civil War finance and the American state -- George Pendleton and mass opinion -- The election of 1868 -- The crime of 1873 -- Discretion and the Treasury Department -- The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1875 -- The Compromise of 1877 and railroad regulation -- Charles Francis Adams Jr. and bureaucracy -- Free silver and the Democratic Party -- The conservative origins of the American regulatory state -- Conclusion : state autonomy in democratic societies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index.
Summary	Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio's exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department's control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control.
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Subject	United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
	United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
	United States. Department of the Treasury.
	United States. Department of the Treasury.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	United States.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Representative government and representation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Representative government and representation.
	History.
	Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Political campaigns.
	Elections -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Elections.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: DeCanio, Samuel. Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] 9780300198782 (DLC) 2015933606 (OCoLC)905638887
ISBN	9780300216318 (electronic book)
	0300216319 (electronic book)
	9780300198782
	0300198787

Title Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / Samuel DeCanio.

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