The rise of the public authority : statebuilding and economic development in Twentieth-Century America / Gail Radford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radford, Gail.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government corporations--United States--History--20th century.

Government corporations.

Federal land banks.

History.

United States.

Federal land banks--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to develop a new class of quasi-public agencies to meet the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Today public authorities exist at all levels of government, exercising considerable power with very little public oversight. Gail Radford maps this institutional terra incognita, making a substantial contribution to our understanding of these pervasive and elusive corporations. Book jacket.

Contents:

The campaign for a federal fleet corporation

The creation of the federal land banks

Municipalities struggle to meet new needs

The truncated career of autonomous federal agencies

The federal government promotes public authorities

Public authorities since the Second World War

Epilogue: The future of public authorities

Appendix: Federal corporate agencies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226037691

022603769X

9780226037721

022603772X

OCLC:

809911062