Jeff Taylor

Politics on a Human Scale

The American Tradition of Decentralism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states’ rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary political scene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1036g
• ISBN-13: 9780739186749
• ISBN-10: 0739186744
• Artikelnr.: 39045029

Autorenporträt

Jeff Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Quadratic Persuasion
Chapter 2. The Country Party: Agrarianism Surveyed
Chapter 3. Nullification and the Politics of State Sovereignty
Chapter 4. The Path Not Taken by the Progressive Era and New Deal
Chapter 5. Southern Democrats and Selective Devolutions
Chapter 6. Me-Too Republicans and Averted Revolutions
Chapter 7. Ronald Reagan: Conservatism Co-Opted
Chapter 8. Dissident Voices in an Age of Centralization
Appendices
A. Two Southern Populists with National Ambitions
B. Wilson and the Coming of War
C. Thomas Bayard, Grover Cleveland, and the Rise of Empire
D. Personal Links between Taft '52 and Goldwater '64