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From liberty to democracy : the transformation of American government / Randall G. Holcombe.
LIBRA JK1726 .H65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holcombe, Randall G.
- Series:
- Economics, cognition, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- From Liberty to Democracy examines American political history using the framework of public choice theory to show how American government grew more democratic, and how this resulted in an increase in the size and scope of government.
- Contents:
- Liberty : the revolutionary cause
- Liberty and democracy as economic systems
- Consensus versus democracy : politics in eighteenth-century America
- Constitutions as constraints : the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States
- The growth of parties and interests before the War between the States
- The impact of the War between the States
- Interest groups and the transition to government growth : 1870-1915
- Populism and progressivism
- The growth of the federal government in the 1920s
- The New Deal and World War II
- Democracy triumphs : the great society
- The dangers of democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472112902
- OCLC:
- 49799356
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