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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"American political development."”.
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The politics of sovereignty : federalism in American political development
The development of American federalism is a story of contested sovereignty, and those contests are fundamentally shaped by the evolving structures, relationships, and understandings of the constitutional order. This dissertation seeks to show how the American federal system is both cause and effect …
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Black Public Works: The Political Economy of Race and New Deal Infrastructure
… with race during a critical juncture in American political development and spatial rationalization. The narrative of the New Deal has often underestimated the infrastructure building that became the nucleus of the Roosevelt Administration’s relief and reform policies as well as the ways …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
Theorists of the American state have neglected how private forms of violence—frontier marauders, corporate militias, and lynching communities—have established and maintained US government power at the local, state, and national level. This dissertation’s three case studies correct that tendency. …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… underpinnings of twentieth-century developments in the structure and function of the federal judicial system. In the half-century between 1891 and 1939, the federal judiciary underwent its first complete reorganization since the First Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. The …
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The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
For more than one hundred years, American antitrust laws have helped to define the legal framework supporting the continuously expanding and developing American economy. This legal framework has not remained unchanged; rather, the antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted at fairly …