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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
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2015
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Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio’s exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department’s control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission’s regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control.
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Samuel DeCanio is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Yale University. He lives in New York.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. The Modern Regulatory State
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Chapter 2. State Autonomy in Democratic Societies
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Chapter 3. Civil War Finance and the American State
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Chapter 4. George Pendleton and Mass Opinion
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Chapter 5. The Election of 1868
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Chapter 6. The Crime of 1873
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Chapter 7. Discretion and the Treasury Department
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Chapter 8. The Ohio Gubernatorial Election of 1875
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Chapter 9. The Compromise of 1877 and Railroad Regulation
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Chapter 10. Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Bureaucracy
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Chapter 11. Free Silver and the Democratic Party
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Chapter 12. The Conservative Origins of the American Regulatory State
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Conclusion State Autonomy in Democratic Societies
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Notes
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Primary Sources
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Index
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