Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State

Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State

von: Samuel DeCanio

Yale University Press, 2015

ISBN: 9780300216318

Format: PDF

Kopierschutz: DRM

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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State


 

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.