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Governing the American State : Congress and the New Federalism, 1877-1929, Paperback / softback Book

Governing the American State : Congress and the New Federalism, 1877-1929 Paperback / softback

Part of the Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives series

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The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong.

Cooperative federalism was not born in a Big Bang, but instead emerged out of power struggles within the nation's major political institutions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Examining the fifty-two years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression, Johnson shows that the "first New Federalism" was created during this era from dozens of policy initiatives enacted by a modernizing Congress.

The expansion of national power took the shape of policy instruments that reflected the constraints imposed by the national courts and the Constitution, but that also satisfied emergent policy coalitions of interest groups, local actors, bureaucrats, and members of Congress.

Thus, argues Johnson, the New Deal was not a decisive break with the past, but rather a superstructure built on a foundation that emerged during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Her evidence draws on an analysis of 131 national programs enacted between 1877 and 1930, a statistical analysis of these programs, and detailed case studies of three of them: the Federal Highway Act of 1916, the Food and Drug Act of 1906, and the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921.

As this book shows, federalism has played a vital but often underappreciated role in shaping the modern American state.

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