The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900This innovative book argues that the mugwump reformers who built early bureaucracies cared less about enhancing government efficiency than about restraining the power of majoritarian political leaders in Congress and the executive branch. |
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... group of rebellious states . Nationalists , on the other hand , assumed a rebellion could be subdued with little effort or cost . When secession came in 1861 and civil war became inevitable , both sides assumed they would win an easy ...
... group of rebellious states . Nationalists , on the other hand , assumed a rebellion could be subdued with little effort or cost . When secession came in 1861 and civil war became inevitable , both sides assumed they would win an easy ...
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... group of states strongly opposed its policies , but the Union victory had destroyed that uncertainty . After 1865 , everyone knew that , as long as the military obeyed the orders of its civilian masters , 27 I should note that I would ...
... group of states strongly opposed its policies , but the Union victory had destroyed that uncertainty . After 1865 , everyone knew that , as long as the military obeyed the orders of its civilian masters , 27 I should note that I would ...
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... groups would populate discrete geographic communities , the re- formers understood that the Civil War and the nation's economic development had destroyed localism . But small , tight - knit groups could still exist , they believed , on ...
... groups would populate discrete geographic communities , the re- formers understood that the Civil War and the nation's economic development had destroyed localism . But small , tight - knit groups could still exist , they believed , on ...
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