02996nam 22005651 450 991079089800332120230803022229.00-7391-7576-9(CKB)2550000001143282(EBL)1441823(SSID)ssj0001001281(PQKBManifestationID)12459104(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001281(PQKBWorkID)10961969(PQKB)10176853(MiAaPQ)EBC1441823(Au-PeEL)EBL1441823(CaPaEBR)ebr10774575(OCoLC)877767553(EXLCZ)99255000000114328220130723h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolitics on a human scale the American tradition of decentralism /Jeff TaylorLanham :Lexington Books,[2013]©20131 online resource (649 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-8674-4 0-7391-7575-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CentralizationAppendix 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 AuthorIn 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.Decentralization in governmentUnited StatesHistoryPolitical partiesUnited StatesHistoryDecentralization in governmentHistory.Political partiesHistory.320.973Taylor Jeff1961-1520718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790898003321Politics on a human scale3759449UNINA