Nationalist and localist traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science, and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact, and assess its worth.
Nationalist and localist traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contrib...
Nationalist and localist traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science, and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact, and assess its worth.
Nationalist and localist traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contrib...
America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick. She explores the nature of the compound republic, with attention both to its enduring features and to the changes wrought in the 20th century by Progressivism, the New Deal and the civil rights revolution.
America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick. She explores the nature of the compound republic, with attention ...
The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that iron triangles operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition. Despite almost unanimous agreement among economists that such regulation was inefficient, it seemed highly unlikely that deregulation could occur. Yet between 1975 and 1980 major deregulatory changes that strongly favored competition did take place in a wide range of industries. The results are familiar to airline passengers, users...
The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that iron triangles operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members ...
Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies. Derthick concludes that many structural features of American government hinder good administration, that policymakers lack concern for administration, and that they often miscalculate the administrative consequences of their policy choices. To illustrate this argument, Agency Under Stress analyzes two much-publicized cases of poor performance by one of the biggest and best established of U.S....
Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guid...
