TY  - BOOK
AU  - Novak,William J
TI  - New democracy: the creation of the modern American state 
SN  - 9780674260443
AV  - JK31 .N68 2022
U1  - 320.973 23/eng/20211007
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The progressive pursuit of a modern democratic state -- Citizenship: the origins of modern American constitutionalism -- Police power: the state and the transformation of American public law -- Public utility: the origins of modern business regulation -- Social legislation: from social welfare to social police -- Antimonopoly: regulated industries and the social control of capitalism -- Democratic administration: public service and social provision -- Conclusion: The myth of the New Deal state
N2  - "Between 1866 and 1932 - between the Civil War and the New Deal - the American system of governance was fundamentally transformed with momentous implications for modern American social and economic life. Nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship were replaced by a modern approach to positive statecraft, social legislation, economic regulation, and public administration very much with us today. This later turn-of-the-century revolution in governance is best characterized as "The Creation of the Modern American State." This was the second great act in the political history of American democracy, broadly construed"--
ER  -