Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state
By: Samuel DeCanio
Series: Yale ISPS series; Yale ISPS series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300198782
Subjects: Politics and government; United States. Interstate Commerce Commission; Political campaigns; Elections; United States; United States. Department of the Treasury; Representative government and representation; History
Description: "Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio's exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department's control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: The modern regulatory state; title: State autonomy in democratic societies; title: Civil War finance and the American state; title: George Pendleton and mass opinion; title: The election of 1868; title: The crime of 1873; title: Discretion and the Treasury Department; title: The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1875; title: The Compromise of 1877 and railroad regulation; title: Charles Francis Adams Jr. and bureaucracy; title: Free silver and the Democratic Party; title: The conservative origins of the American regulatory state; title: Conclusion : state autonomy in democratic societies.