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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453727903321

Autore

Taylor Jeff <1961->

Titolo

Politics on a human scale : the American tradition of decentralism / / Jeff Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-7391-7576-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (649 p.)

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Decentralization in government - United States - History

Political parties - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Textboxes; Foreword: A Moral Call for Decentralized Democracy; Preface; 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

Appendix A. Two Southern Populists with National AmbitionsAppendix B. Wilson and the Coming of War; Appendix C. Thomas Bayard, Grover Cleveland, and the Rise of Empire; Appendix D. Personal Links between Taft '52 and Goldwater '64; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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. Covering the subject with breadth and depth-from the founding of the republic to the present-the book will be of value to those interested in political science, history,



and American culture.