TY - BOOK AU - DeCanio,Samuel TI - Democracy and the origins of the American regulatory state T2 - The Yale ISPS series SN - 9780300216318 AV - JK246 U1 - 320.5 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - United States KW - Interstate Commerce Commission KW - Department of the Treasury KW - fast KW - Representative government and representation KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Political campaigns KW - Elections KW - Gouvernement représentatif KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Government KW - General KW - National KW - Reference KW - Political Ideologies KW - Democracy KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-303) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1074238 ER -