Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy by Martha Derthick

Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy by Martha Derthick

Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to recapture its origins, explain its current impact and assess its worth.

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Martha Derthick retired in 1999 from the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government, including: Dilemmas of Scale in America′s Federal Democracy (editor, 1999); Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk, 1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program of The Brookings Institution, and was the program′s director between 1978 and 1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard University, and Boston College.

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ISBN 13	9780521033091
ISBN 10	0521033098
Title	Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy
Author	Martha Derthick
Series	Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2007-01-18
Number of pages	404
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