Government in the United States
Author : James Wilford Garner
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Illinois
ISBN :
Author : James Wilford Garner
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Illinois
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Author : Earl H. Fry
Publisher : O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780876092224
Earl Fry explores the forces behind the rise of state and local influence in foreign affairs.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN :
The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801868894
In The Rise of the States, noted urban historian Jon C. Teaford explores the development of state government in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the so-called renaissance of states at the end of the twentieth. Arguing that state governments were not lethargic backwaters that suddenly stirred to life in the 1980s, Teaford shows instead how state governments were continually adapting and expanding throughout the past century. While previous historical scholarship focused on the states, if at all, as retrograde relics of simpler times, Teaford describes how states actively assumed new responsibilities, developed new sources of revenue, and created new institutions. Teaford examines the evolution of the structure, function, and finances of state government during the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression, the post–World War II years, and the post–reapportionment era beginning in the late 1960s. State governments, he explains, played an active role not only in the creation, governance, and management of the political units that made up the state but also in dealing with the growth of business, industries, and education. Not all states chose the same solutions to common problems. For Teaford, the diversity of responses points to the growing vitality and maturity of state governments as the twentieth century unfolded.
Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1889
Category : State governments
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Author : James William Fesler
Publisher : New York, Knopf
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Local government
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Author : Bernard Moses
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1906
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Diane D. Blair
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803204892
Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair s influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state s motto of Regnat Populus ( The People Rule ) and the positive trends of democracy. Since the first edition, Arkansas has seen the two-term U.S. presidency of a native son, the retirement of players who defined the state s politics in the modern era, the further realignment of the state s electorate, the passage of the nation s most extreme legislative term limits, the complete overhaul of the state s court system, and the declaration that the state s public education system was unconstitutionally inadequate and inequitable. While maintaining the basic structure of Blair s original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of the people.
Author : Price V. Fishback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226251292
The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.
Author : James Wilford Garner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1915
Category : New York (State)
ISBN :