The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era

ISBN-13: 9780195047844 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 384 str.

Richard L. McCormick

Opis

These boldly argued essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. McCormick follows the major parties from their emergence in the 1820s and 1830s to their transformation almost a century later, discussing the nature of governance, clarifying economic policies of promotion, distribution, and (later) regulation that characterized government functions at every level, and sorting out the complex relationships between politics and policy during the "party period."

Recenzje

'These essays document the emergence of Richard L. McCormick as a leading interpreter of American political history ... [He] is a skilled synthesizer. And he properly concludes from his reconnaissance of the field that policy warrants high priority on our research agendas.' Civil War History