The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900

by William Edward Nelson

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William Nelson reinterprets nineteenth-century American history as a struggle between majority rule and minority rights. From this fresh point of view, he traces the roots of American bureaucracy. Nelson analyzes the majority-minority tension form the Jacksonian revolution of strong party rule and majoritarian decisionmaking through the abolitionist crisis, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of industrialism. He shows that ultimately political...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674779452

ISBN13:9780674779457

Release Date:December 1982

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

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Business & Investing Elections & Political Process Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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