The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century
Morton Keller and R. Shep Melnick
What is American government like today? How has it changed - and how has it remaind the same - over the course of the century now coming to a close. Taking Stock seeks to provide the fullest and most thoughtful answers yet offered to these questions. Never before have these major public policy issues been explored so deeply, and with such insight, in a collaborative effort crossing disciplinary borders.
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Chapter List
Foreward, Michael J. Lacey
1. Taking Stock, Morton Keller
Part I: Trade and Tariff Policy
2. Trade Policy in Historical Perspective, Morton Keller
3. The Triumph of Liberal Trade: American Trade Policy in the Postwar Period
Part II: Immigrants and Aliens
4. The Progressive State and the LEgacy of Collective Immigrant Identities, Reed Ueda
5. The Racialization of Immigration Policy, Peter Skerry
Part III: Conservation and Environmentalism
6. The Many Faces of Conservation: Natural Resources and the American State, 1900-1940, Donald J. Pisani
7. Risky Business: Government and the Environment after Earth Day, R. Shep Melnick
Part IV: Civil Rights
8. Since 1964: The Paradox of American Civil Rights Regulation
9. You Win Some, You Lose Some: Explaining the Patter of Success and Failure in the Second Reconstruction, Jennifer L. Hochschild
Part V: Social Welfare
10. From Beginning to End: HAs Twentieth-Century U.S. Social POlicy Come Full Circle?, Theda Skocpol
11. Conclusion: governing More but Enjoying It Less, R. Shep Melnick