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Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940

Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel R. ErnstPublish date:2016-05-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190465872ISBN-10:190465875UPC:9780190465872Book Category:Political Science, Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Process, Legal History, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCZZTJY4MQ
Alexis de Tocqueville once warned that "insufferable despotism" would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Today's Tea Partiers evidently believe that Tocqueville's nightmare came true during the New Deal when radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. In Tocqueville's Nightmare, Daniel R. Ernst destroys this ahistorical and simplistic narrative. He shows that reformers wanted to purge government of corruption rather than create a socialist utopia. Indeed, they built the principles of individual rights, limited government, and due process into the administrative state.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190465872ISBN-10:190465875UPC:9780190465872Book Category:Political Science, Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Process, Legal History, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCZZTJY4MQ
Daniel R. Ernst has been a member of the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center since 1988. His first book, Lawyers against Labor, won the Littleton-Griswold Award of the American Historical Association. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand, and a co-editor of "Studies in Legal History" a book series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. He writes on the political history of American legal institutions.
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