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Tocqueville's nightmare : the administrative state emerges in America, 1900-1940 / Daniel R. Ernst.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199377206 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Public administration -- United States -- History | Administrative agencies -- United States -- History | Bureaucracy -- United States -- History | Rule of law -- United States -- History | United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
Additional Physical Form: Print version 9780199920860DDC classification: 320.97309041 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: De Tocqueville once wrote that 'insufferable despotism' would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Between 1900 and 1940, radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. Ernst shows, to the contrary, that the nation's best corporate lawyers were among the creators of 'commission government'; that supporters were more interested in purging government of corruption than creating a socialist utopia; and that the principles of individual rights, limited government, and due process were designed into the administrative state.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
De Tocqueville once wrote that 'insufferable despotism' would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Between 1900 and 1940, radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. Ernst shows, to the contrary, that the nation's best corporate lawyers were among the creators of 'commission government'; that supporters were more interested in purging government of corruption than creating a socialist utopia; and that the principles of individual rights, limited government, and due process were designed into the administrative state.
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