New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State Novak William J.
The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America.In the period between the Civil War and the…
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The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America.In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. A series of legal reforms gradually brought an end to nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship, replacing them with positive statecraft: governmental activism intended to change how Americans lived and worked through legislation, regulation, and public administration. The last time American public life had been so thoroughly altered was in the late eighteenth century, at the founding and in the years immediately following.William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic