New democracy : the creation of the modern American state /
"Between 1866 and 1932 - between the Civil War and the New Deal - the American system of governance was fundamentally transformed with momentous implications for modern American social and economic life. Nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship were rep...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The progressive pursuit of a social democratic state
- Citizenship: the origins of modern American constitutionalism
- Police power: the state and the transformation of American public law
- Public utility: the origins of modern business regulation
- Social legislation: from social welfare to social police
- Antimonopoly: regulated industries and the social control of capitalism
- Democratic administration: public service and social provision
- Conclusion: The myth of the New Deal state.