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1 online resource (183 pages) |
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Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance Ser |
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Routledge research in American politics and governance.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; A Note on Terminology; Methodological Perspective; Political Culture; Initial Considerations Regarding Justice and Overview of Chapters; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Justice as the Common Good; Aristotle; Modern Relevance; Aristotle's View of Justice; Aristotle and Modern Political Thought; Tocqueville; Equality, Political Freedom, and Centralization; Checks on Centralization; Integrating Aristotle and Tocqueville for Contemporary Analysis |
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A Socratic Diversion: Justice as the Advantage of the StrongAn Aristotelian Reading of Rawls; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Of Keynes, Crisis, and Credit: An Overview of American Fiscal Trends in the Twentieth Century; Review of Debt and Revenue for Local, State, and National Government; Several Theoretical Perspectives on Debt; Toward an Explanation of Public Debt in Terms of Justice or the Common Good; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Modeling Injustice; Literature Review; An Aristotelian Contribution to Federalism Theory; Studies of State Debt; Methodology and Variable Selection |
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Preliminary ModelingFinal Models; Model 1: Real Income Per Capita Without Real Intergovernmental Aid to a State Per Capita; Model 2: Real Intergovernmental Aid to a State Per Capita Without Real Income Per Capita; Model 3: Percent of a State's Population in Cities Greater Than 100,000; Discussion of Dependent Variable Real State Debt PerCapita and Significant Independent Variables, with Chartson Historical Trends and State Rank; Real State Debt Per Capita; Population Density |
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Centralization Variables: City Size, State to Local Revenue Ratio, and Real Intergovernmental Aid to the State Per CapitaVoter Turnout; Protestant/Catholic Population Ratio; Real Income Per Capita; Lawyers Per 1,000 Population; Remarks on Insignificant Variables; A Comment on Elazar; Injustice and Public Debt; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Interpreting Injustice; The Size of the State Bar as an Adequate Measure of Injustice; Model 5.1: Effect of Select Variables on Lawyer Population (1920-1990); The Size of the State Bar as a Measure of Legal Complexity |
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The Size of the State Bar as a Measure of the Dominance of Attorneys in the Public SquareConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Progressivism and the Rise of the American Administrative State; Defining Progressivism; The Presidential Campaign of 1912; Placing the 1912 Campaign in Historical Context; Applying Themes from Aristotle and Tocqueville; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Conclusion; Summary of Findings; Areas for Further Research; A Qualification; The American Administrative State: A Hypothesis; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix: Data Sources; Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Debts, Public -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Fiscal policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Common good.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Common good
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Debts, Public
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Fiscal policy
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429866401 |
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0429866402 |
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9780429866395 |
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0429866399 |
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9780429866388 |
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0429866380 |
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9780429461330 |
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042946133X |
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