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State and Party in America's New Deal

State and Party in America's New Deal

State and Party in America's New Deal.

State and Party in America's New Deal.

Why Regimes? Ideas, Incentives, and Policies in American Political OrdersWhy Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. By John H. Aldrich Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics, and the Fiscal State. By John J. Coleman Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke

Previous article No AccessReview ArticleWhy Regimes? Ideas, Incentives, and Policies in American Political Orders Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. By John H. Aldrich Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics, and the Fiscal State. By John J. Coleman Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke Andrew J. PolskyAndrew J. Polsky Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Polity Volume 29, Number 4Summer 1997 The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association Copyright 1997 Northeastern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Mark A. Scully Principled Rhetoric as Coalition Management: Speech in the Reconstructive Presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, Polity 50, no.11 (Nov 2017): 129–157.https://doi.org/10.1086/695310

State and Party in America's New Deal.

Providing a needed historical perspective on current debates about industrial and agricultural policy, Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol compare the origins, implementation, and consequences of two similar programs from Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal, each of which committed the federal government to extensive intervention in sectors of the U.S. economy. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and its industrial counterpart, the National Recovery Administration (NRA), had very different fates. The politically and economically successful AAA set trends in American farm policy that continue to the present. The NRA was rejected as an abysmal failure. Why such drastically different outcomes? A historical and institutional approach, Finegold and Skocpol contend, can explain the similarities and differences of the NRA and AAA better than competing approaches of pluralism, elite theory, Marxism, or rational choice. They show that the AAA aided large commercial farmers and increased their power over tenants, sharecroppers, and farm workers. The NRA, however, worked against the interests of its original business supporters and encouraged union organization among their workers. Finegold and Skocpol explain the contrasts in these programs by showing differences in the organization of governmental intervention in agriculture and in industry before the New Deal, and by tracking the differing ways capitalists, farmers, and workers participated in the New Deal political coalition. Both Finegold and Skocpol have been prominent in bringing renewed attention to national political institutions. Their crisp analysis of state and party dynamics contributes to theories of politics in advanced industrial societies and will appeal to political scientists, policy makers, sociologists, historians, and economists in short, all those who must understand how past programs influence present U.S. policies.

State and Party in America's New Deal

State and Party in America's New Deal

State and Party in America's New Deal.

State and Party in America's New Deal.

State and Party in America's New Deal, by Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold

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Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Environmental and Natural Resources Issues: Arizpe, Lourdes, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Majors (eds.). Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate.Environmental and Natural Resources Issues: Lund, Jens. Flatheads and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley.Environmental and Natural Resources Issues: DuPuis, Melanie E. And Peter Pendergrass (eds.) Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse.Environmental and Natural Resources Issues: Kromm, David E. And Stephen E. White (eds.). Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains.Environmental and Natural Resources Issues: Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850.International Issues: Wilson, Richard. 1995. Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences.International Issues: Jeffrey, Patricia and Roger Jeffrey. Don't Marry Me to a Plowman! Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India.International Issues: Weaver, Frederick S. Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of Central America.International Issues: Wachtel, Nathan. Gods and Vampires, Return to Chapaya.Rural Politics: Finegold, Kenneth and Theda Skocpol. State and Party in America's New Deal.Rural Politics: Watkins, Marilyn P. Rural Democracy: Family Farmers and Politics in Western Washington, 1890–1925.Rural Culture and Rural Development: Rowley, Thomas D., David W. Sears, Glenn L. Nelson, J. Norman Reid, and Mervin J. Yetley (eds.). Rural Development Research: A Foundation for Policy.Rural Culture and Rural Development: Billson, Janet Mancini. Keepers of the Culture: The Power of Tradition in Women's Lives.Rural Culture and Rural Development: Sontag, M. Suzanne and Margaret M. Bubolz. Families on Small Farms: Case Studies in Human Ecology.Rural Culture and Rural Development: Rank, Mark Robert. Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America.Rural Culture and Rural Development: Scott, Shaunna L. Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky.

State and Party in America's New Deal.Kenneth Finegold , Theda Skocpol

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsState and Party in America's New Deal. Kenneth Finegold , Theda Skocpol Bartholomew H. SparrowBartholomew H. Sparrow Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 58, Number 4Nov., 1996 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2960160 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1996 University of Texas PressPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

State and Party in America's New Deal.Kenneth Finegold , Theda Skocpol

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Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America.

Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America.

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Paradoxes of Party Politics - John H. Aldrich: Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 296. $48.00.)

Paradoxes of Party Politics - John H. Aldrich: Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 296. $48.00.) - Volume 58 Issue 2

Why parties?: the origin and transformation of political parties in America

Why parties?: the origin and transformation of political parties in America

The limits of agrarian radicalism: western populism and American politics

As Ross Perot proved in 1992, even when funded by a bottomless bank account, American third parties have always struggled in their efforts to achieve recognition and political power. Yet even in defeat their contributions to national politics have been substantial. That, Peter Argersinger contends, was certainly true of the Populists a century earlier. Argersinger, one of our nation's foremost historians of the Populist era, brings together in this volume some of his best and most influential essays-ranging from a study of a single election campaign to complex analyses of political organizations, legislative behavior, and government institutions. Together they amply display his consistently sharp and wide-ranging insights on this important moment in American life. Argersinger examines, among other things, the Populists' evolution in electoral politics, from creating a party to running election campaigns; the enormous obstacles they overcame in the process of electing a U.S. Senator; specific laws and procedures that suppressed Populism's full political participation; hard-won successes in Western state legislatures in the face of powerful enemies and numerous internal disputes; and the Populists' long-standing struggles and frustrations with the U.S Congress. Throughout Argersinger illuminates the fundamental ways in which Populism challenged our political system and brings to life its volatile personalities, dramatic controversies, visionary programs, and enduring frustrations. (So frustrating that an Oklahoma Populist once pulled a gun on the Speaker of the House who kept refusing to recognize his request to speak to the assembly.) Of special interest to political, social, rural, Western, and Gilded Age historians, this book provides a timely reminder of the political constraints on third parties in America.

Divided Government and Dysfunctional Politics

Divided Government and Dysfunctional Politics

Industrial Factionalism in Modern German History

At a time when the Republican party in America seems to have abandoned its brief hopes of proclaiming a new paradigm, it may seem apropos to observe that old ones die hard—and not only in public life. A case in point from the scholarly world is the subject of this essay: the persistent historiographical notion of industrial factionalism. Throughout this century, students of German political economy have tended to see the country's business world as divided between two groupings. One comprises the classic heavy industries of the first Industrial Revolution and the Ruhr: coal, iron, and steel. Supposedly oriented toward domestic markets, burdened with high labor costs, doomed to flattening gains in productivity and profits, and habituated to hierarchy within their plants and the nation, executives in this grouping have figured in the historical literature as consistently and intransigently united against free trade, labor unions, and parliamentary government—indeed, against modernization itself.

Dilemma and Destiny: The Democratic Party in America.

Dilemma and Destiny: The Democratic Party in America.

The Breakdown of the Democratic Party Organization, 1940-1980

American Democratic parties have traditionally drawn their strength from local party organizations. This book examines the origins of the spectacular collapse of these party organizations in the United States which occurred between the early 1960's and the mid 1970's. It is the first major study of organizational decay at local level. Dr. Ware draws attention to the problems faced by many local parties in America during this period, concentrating on Democratic parties in three major urban areas - New York City, which previously had strong parties; East Bay in California, which has always had weak parties; and Denver, which is an intermediate case. He argues that the collapse in the 1960's resulted form the complex interaction of various factors, and left parties ill-equipped to deal with candidate-centered compaigning and the quickening of social, economic, and political changes during the Vietnam era. 'Alan Ware's second book on American party politics ...firmly establishes him as one of the most distinguished scholars of American politics working in the UK today.' Parliamentary Affairs First-degree and graduate courses on American politics in the UK; courses on American electoral politics, and the comparative study of political parties in the US; political commentators, journalists, party activists.

Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure, by Steven J. Rosenstone, Roy L. Behr and Edward H. Lazarus

In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates. Over the past three decades, independent campaigns led by George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot have attracted more electoral support than at any time since the 1920s. Third Parties in America explains why and when the two-party system deteriorates and third parties flourish. Relying on data from presidential elections between 1840 and 1992, it identifies the situations in which Americans abandon the major parties and shows how third parties encourage major party responsiveness and broader representation of political interests.