Ethridge, Marcus E.

The case for gridlock democracy, organized power, and the legal foundations of American government / [electronic resource] : Marcus E. Ethridge. - Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2010. - xiii, 223 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Progressivism, organized interests, and the politics of gridlock -- The constitutional principle and institutional design -- Incomplete conquest : progressivism and the legal foundations of the administrative state through the 1960s -- The collapse of progressive institutional design -- Constitutionalism resurgent : the end of liberalism?.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780739142394 (electronic bk.)




Pressure groups--United States.
Lobbying--United States.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Constitutional history--United States.
Administrative agencies--United States.


Electronic books.

JK1118 / .E84 2010

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