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The Associational State - Brian Balogh

The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2018
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-2422-1 (ISBN)
CHF 41,85 inkl. MwSt
In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civic goals while protecting individual freedoms. Brian Balogh proposes a new view of U.S. politics that illuminates how public and private actors collaborate to achieve collective goals. This "associational synthesis" treats the relationship between state and civil society as fluid and challenges interpretations that map the trajectory of American politics solely along ideological lines. Rather, both liberals and conservatives have extended the authority of the state but have done so most successfully when state action is mediated through nongovernmental institutions, such as universities, corporations, interest groups, and other voluntary organizations.

The Associational State provides a fresh perspective on the crucial role that the private sector, trade associations, and professional organizations have played in implementing public policies from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first century. Balogh examines key historical periods through the lens of political development, paying particular attention to the ways government, social movements, and intermediary institutions have organized support and resources to achieve public ends. Exposing the gap between the ideological rhetoric that both parties deploy today and their far less ideologically driven behavior over the past century and a half, The Associational State offers one solution to the partisan gridlock that currently grips the nation.

Brian Balogh is Compton Professor at the Miller Center and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America and cohosts the public radio show Backstory with the American History Guys.

Introduction. Toward an Associational Synthesis

Chapter 1. The Enduring Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Governance in the United States: The Emergence of the Associational Order

Chapter 2. Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform

Chapter 3. "Mirrors of Desires": Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America

Chapter 4. Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America

Chapter 5. Meeting the State Halfway: Governing America, 1930-1950

Chapter 6. Making Pluralism "Great": Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society

Conclusion. How We Got Here

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Politics and Culture in Modern America
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-8122-2422-1 / 0812224221
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-2422-1 / 9780812224221
Zustand Neuware
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