E-Book, Englisch, Band 120, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Teaford The Rise of the States
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7702-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Evolution of American State Government
E-Book, Englisch, Band 120, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7702-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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Contents:
1 A Flawed Prognosis
2 A New Era in State Government
3 Financing the Emerging State
4 Restructuring State Government
5 Adapting to the Automobile Age
6 Economic Depression and Accelerated Change
7 Working in the Shadows
8 Reform and Recognition
Epilogue: The Continuing Evolution
Notes
Index