The National War Labor Board and American State Building: A Response

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203
Author(s):  
Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
State Building ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
American State

In his article “Creating the National War Labor Board: Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of State Building in the Early 1940s,” Andrew Workman argues for a revised “institutionalist” understanding of the creation of the National War Labor Board (NWLB). Specifically, Workman includes interest groups, networks of policy intellectuals, and intragovernmental relations in an institutionalist account of the origin of the NWLB. Existing accounts that focus on the government's dependence on labor unions (Sparrow) or partisan politics (Katznelson and Pietrokowski; Katznelson, Geiger, and Kryder) do not explain the complex origins of this key wartime board.

4 The Administrative State in America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Novak William J
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Building ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American State

This chapter examines the idea of the Continental State in a common-law context, by focusing in particular on the American state. Building on some very recent historical and theoretical work on the American state, the chapter explores the conscious effort of the United States to create a modern state based loosely on the Continental model. It argues that American ideas and institutions were not created in isolation. Rather, from the beginning, American intellectuals, jurists, and state reformers engaged in an extended trans-Atlantic dialogue concerning matters of politics, law, and statecraft. This was especially true of the period that experienced the most extensive transformations in American governance and statecraft — the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Accordingly, this chapter takes a close look at the American tradition of law and state building in this formative era — from 1866 to 1932.

Professor Smith Goes to Washington: Educational Interest Group Lobbying, 1998–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 448-453
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Marsicano ◽  
Christopher Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Lobbying Activity ◽  
Expenditure Data ◽  
K 12

Congressional lobbying by education-related interest groups is an understudied subject in education research. This brief uses congressional lobbying expenditure data from 1998 to 2017 to examine trends in lobbying behavior by labor unions; K–12 education providers; and public, private nonprofit, and for-profit higher education institutions. Education interest groups have spent in excess of $2 billion lobbying Congress since 1998. Higher education institutions represent a disproportionate share of lobbying activity and expenditures, accounting for almost 70% of education-focused interest groups and around 80% of education-related lobbying expenditures. Lobbying expenditures steadily rose until 2011 before rapidly declining. The brief speculates as to the possible reasons for these trends and concludes with a call for greater research on lobbying for education.

Julius Caesar across borders: The ethos of the American republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Esther Schupak
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
American State

In order to endow the newborn American state with legitimacy, the founders of the country sought a connection to the ancient Roman republican past. William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has an honoured place in the creation of that American democratic ethos. While performances during the colonial and post-revolutionary periods may have been rare, this play was frequently taught at that time, usually in excerpted format. While Shakespeare's text is ambiguous ideologically, balanced between libertarian and conservative monarchical elements, these excerpts constructed an unabashedly republican drama whose purpose was to advocate for democracy, infusing the patriotic ethos of the republic into American youth and immigrants.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Spider Web ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Political Economic

This conclusion discusses the legacies of the Anticommunist Spider Web and the myriad ways in which they persist in the extraordinary life span and significance of anticommunism in US politics, economy, and culture. Among the most important consequences of anticommunism was the creation of the surveillance state and the promotion of a military–industrial complex. The Spider Web also wielded significant influence in the areas of partisan politics, big business, immigration policy, political economy, and liberal anticommunism. This conclusion shows that the Spider Web's descendants used the same arguments, rhetorical tropes, and state and corporate instruments to pursue the political, economic, and social agenda of their forebears. It argues that the cooperation of liberals and labor unions in the suppression of anything that smacked of “communism” restricted public debate about how the Left might or should influence the future of America while creating an ideological void that the heirs of the Spider Web rushed to fill.

The Religious Transformation of Politics and the Political Transformation of Religion

1988 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Religious Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation

This article deals with the introduction of strongly fundamental views into the theory and practice of politics. It also concerns the transformation of religion from a concern with religious faith to the creation of political religions. Thus forces have been at work in the past two decades seeking to make a religion of politics and transforming religion into a holy political crusade in the form of a particular version of partisan politics.

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