LEADER 04340nam 2200637 450 001 9910463728703321 005 20210427023536.0 010 $a0-8122-9115-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291155 035 $a(CKB)2670000000594532 035 $a(OCoLC)903961779 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary11009907 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001423512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12625064 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001423512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11439845 035 $a(PQKB)11097619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442469 035 $a(OCoLC)903563535 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42168 035 $a(DE-B1597)451276 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11009907 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL698132 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000594532 100 $a20150203h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDebating the American state $eliberal anxieties and the new leviathan, 1930-1970 /$fAnne M. Kornhauser 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-66850-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4687-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Leviathan and Its Discontents --$tChapter 2. Democracy and Accountability in the Administrative State --$tChapter 3. The Rule of Law When the State Goes to War --$tChapter 4. Liberal Democracy Conducts an Occupation and a War Crimes Tribunal --$tChapter 5. Individual Autonomy and the Modern American State: The Philosophy of John Rawls --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was championed by the political left, and its continued growth and dominance in American politics is seen as a product of liberal thought?to the extent that "Big Government" is now nearly synonymous with liberalism. Yet there were tensions among liberal statists even as the leviathan first arose. Born in crisis and raised by technocrats, the bureaucratic state always rested on shaky foundations, and the liberals who built and supported it disagreed about whether and how to temper the excesses of the state while retaining its basic structure and function. Debating the American State traces the encounter between liberal thought and the rise of the administrative state and the resulting legitimacy issues that arose for democracy, the rule of law, and individual autonomy. Anne Kornhauser examines a broad and unusual cast of characters, including American social scientists and legal academics, the philosopher John Rawls, and German refugee intellectuals who had witnessed the destruction of democracy in the face of a totalitarian administrative state. In particular, she uncovers the sympathetic but concerned voices?commonly drowned out in the increasingly partisan political discourse?of critics who struggled to reconcile the positive aspects of the administrative state with the negative pressure such a contrivance brought on other liberal values such as individual autonomy, popular sovereignty, and social justice. By showing that the leviathan state was never given a principled and scrupulous justification by its proponents, Debating the American State reveals why the liberal state today remains haunted by programmatic dysfunctions and relentless political attacks. 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 676 $a320.97301 700 $aKornhauser$b Anne Mira$f1964-$01030144 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463728703321 996 $aDebating the American state$92446934 997 $aUNINA