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Author DeCanio, Samuel, author.

Title Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / Samuel DeCanio
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations, map
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 1, 2015)
Subject United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
United States. Department of the Treasury.
SUBJECT United States. Department of the Treasury fast
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission fast
Subject Representative government and representation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Elections -- United States -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
Elections
Political campaigns
Politics and government
Representative government and representation
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140422
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015933606
ISBN 9780300216318
0300216319