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- Title: Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
- Author : Samuel DeCanio
- Release Date : January 27, 2015
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2169 KB
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.