This work compares the origins, implementation and consequences of two similar programmes from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the successful Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the failed National Recovery Administration, and seeks to explain and learn from their very different fates.
This work compares the origins, implementation and consequences of two similar programmes from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the successful Agricultu...
This text examines the activities of the Nevada regulatory agencies and organised crime in their respective efforts to control gambling. The focus is the Black Book, a list of notorious and unsavoury persons banned for life from all licensed casinos in the state.
This text examines the activities of the Nevada regulatory agencies and organised crime in their respective efforts to control gambling. The focus is ...
During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: brief triumph in New York, sustained success in Cleveland, and utter failure in Chicago. Kenneth Finegold seeks to explain this phenomenon by analyzing the support for reform in these cities, especially the role of an emerging class of urban policy professionals in each campaign. His work offers a new way of looking at urban reform opposition to machine politics.
Drawing on original research and quantitative analysis of electoral data,...
During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: bri...
