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02737aam a2200397 i 4500 001 DD8AEA746B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150325t20152015ctuab b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 0300198787 020 $a 9780300198782 035 $a (OCoLC)905638887 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d SNN $d RCJ $d OCLCO $d BDX $d PAU $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IAI $d CUT $d NAM $d OCLCO $d GWL $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a JK246 D43 2015 100 1 $a DeCanio, Samuel, $e author. 245 10 $a Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state / $c Samuel DeCanio. 264 1 $a New Haven ; $b Yale University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xi, 308 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Yale ISPS series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index. 505 0 $a The modern regulatory state -- State autonomy in democratic societies -- Civil War finance and the American state -- George Pendleton and mass opinion -- The election of 1868 -- The crime of 1873 -- Discretion and the Treasury Department -- The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1875 -- The Compromise of 1877 and railroad regulation -- Charles Francis Adams Jr. and bureaucracy -- Free silver and the Democratic Party -- The conservative origins of the American regulatory state -- Conclusion : state autonomy in democratic societies. 520 1 $a "Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio's exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department's control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control"--Back cover. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Representative government and representation $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Political campaigns $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Elections $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 610 10 $a United States. $b Interstate Commerce Commission. 610 10 $a United States. $b Department of the Treasury. 830 0 $a Yale ISPS series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025150.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD8AEA746B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search