The implosion of American federalism
By: Robert F. Nagel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Federal government -- United States
Description: "At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk - among politicians, academics, and jurists - of "coups d'etat," of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown? In this book, Robert Nagel proposes a surprising answer: that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous cultural consequences that are, in an implosive cycle, pushing the country toward ever greater centralization."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-204) and index.