The Case for Gridlock - Democracy, Organized Power, Legal Foundations of American Government

The Case for Gridlock explains how, in an effort to make the system more egalitarian and forward thinking, American Progressivism led to the creation of government institutions that increased the political advantages of superior organization, thereby enabling "special interests" to dominate the policy process. The book makes the case for the Constitutional Principle, showing how gridlock-prone institutions lead to better representation of broader interests.

List of contents

Chapter 1 1 Introduction Chapter 2 2 Progressivism, Organized Interests, and the Politics of Gridlock Chapter 3 3 The Constitutional Principle and Institutional Design Chapter 4 4 Incomplete Conquest: Progressivism and The Legal Foundations of the Administrative State Through the 1960s Chapter 5 5 The Collapse of Progressive Institutional Design Chapter 6 6 Constitutionalism Resurgent: The End ofLiberalism? Chapter 7 Table of Cases

About the author

By Marcus E. Ethridge

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Ethridge, Marcus E Ethridge, Marcus E. Ethridge, Ethridge Marcus E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2011
• EAN: 9780739142387
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4238-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA