LEADER 04103cam a2200433 a 4500001 247896 005 20240621200325.0 008 151214s1996 enka b 001 0 eng 010 95036206 020 0521420598 |q(hardcover) 020 9780521420594 |q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)ocm33101892 035 247896 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dUKM |dFCI |dNLGGC |dXMA |dBAKER |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dUBC |dGEBAY |dOCLCQ |dBDX |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCL |dDEBBG |dLHM 050 00 JK2316 |b.P56 1996 100 1 Plotke, David. 245 10 Building a democratic political order : |breshaping American liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s / |cDavid Plotke. 264 1 Cambridge ;New York : |bCambridge University Press, |c1996. 300 xi, 388 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction : the Democratic order as a political project -- 1. When does politics change? -- 2. Creating political orders : the logic of the Democratic experience -- 3. Democratic opportunities in the crises of the 1930s -- 4. Passing the Wagner Act and building a new Democratic state -- 5. Party and movements in the Democratic upsurge, 1935-7 -- 6. Progressive liberalism as pragmatic common sense -- 7. Surprising years : electing Truman and sustaining the Democratic order, 1947-9 -- 8. Passing Taft-Hartley : what the losers won (and what the winners lost) -- 9. New political fronts? growth and civil rights in the 1940s -- 10. Democratic anti-Communism and the Cold War -- 11. From Truman to Kennedy : the reach and limits of Democratic power -- 12. Was the Democratic order deomocratic? 520 The Democratic political order in the United States defined the main themes, policies, and organized forms of national politics from the 1930s through the 1960s. David Plotke explores the dramatic changes in American politics that occurred during the 1930s and 1940s. In these decades an expanded federal government and a new labor movement emerged as Republican power waned. World War II and the Cold War reshaped the Democratic order without ending it. And national political debate about civil rights was opened. The central dynamic of this era was the creation and maintenance of a distinctive new political order, built by progressive liberals in alliance with mass movements, notably labor. At its core was a powerful triangle formed by a national state, a leading party, and major interest groups and movements. Democratic and modernizing themes fused together in a progressive liberalism that advocated government action to achieve economic stability, protect social security, and expand political representation. In building the Democratic order the expansion of the national state played a crucial role - and the eventual decline of Democratic power was due in large part to its reliance on that state. Far from being nonideological, the Democratic order defined itself in sharp conflicts with forces on its right and left. Democratic progressive liberalism recast American political institutions and discourses in ways that went well beyond what was foreseen in the early 1930s, and in forms strong enough to endure long after Roosevelt's death. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 Democratic Party (U.S.) 651 0 United States |xPolitics and government |y1933-1953. 650 0 Liberalism |zUnited States. 610 27 Democratic Party (U.S.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00532710 650 7 Liberalism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00997183 650 7 Politics and government. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 4 Geschichte 1930-1970. 856 42 |3Table of contents |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam026/95036206.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95036206.html 852 0 |bstacks |hJK2316 |i.P56 1996