Institutional Innovation and Technical Change in American Agriculture: The Role of the New Deal

1983 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1168-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Farrell ◽  
C. Ford Runge
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
American Agriculture ◽  
The New Deal

The role of non-corporeal Actant theory in historical research

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Hartt ◽  
Albert J. Mills ◽  
Jean Helms Mills
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The New Deal

Purpose This paper aims to study the role of non-corporeal Actant theory in historical research through a case study of the trajectory of the New Deal as one of the foremost institutions in the USA since its inception in the early 1930s. Design/methodology/approach The authors follow the trajectory of the New Deal through a focus on Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Drawing on ANTi-History, the authors view history as a powerful discourse for organizing understandings of the past and non-corporeal Actants as a key influence on making sense of (past) events. Findings The authors conclude that non-corporeal Actants influence the shaping of management and organization studies that serve paradoxically to obfuscate history and its relationship to the past. Research limitations/implications The authors drew on a series of published studies of Henry Wallace and archival material in the Roosevelt Library, but the study would benefit from an in-depth analysis of the Wallace archives. Practical implications The authors reveal the influences of non-corporeal Actants as a method for dealing with the past. The authors do this through the use of ANTi-History as a method of historical analysis. Social implications The past is an important source of understanding of the present and future; this innovative approach increases the potential to understand. Originality/value Decisions are often black boxes. Non-Corporeal Actants are a new tool with which to see the underlying inputs of choice.

Politics and Markets: Corporate Money in American National Elections

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore J. Eismeier ◽  
Philip H. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Campaign Finance ◽  
The State ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business Influence ◽  
The New Deal

The current American debate about the relationship between business and government represents the most significant reopening of that issue since the New Deal. The debate is in part about government's role in the economy, but the issue of business's role in politics is being joined as well, joined in fact on several fronts. There are, of course, the polemics of corporations and their critics, in which business is cast alternately as victim and villain. The issue also divides more serious students of American politics and has fostered a wealth of theorizing about the role of the state. Finally, the issue of business influence pervades discussions about campaign finance.

Area-based regeneration partnerships and the role of central government: the New Deal for Communities programme in England

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Beatty ◽  
Mike Foden ◽  
Paul Lawless ◽  
Ian Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The New Deal

Popular Control of Public Policy: A Normal Vote Analysis of the 1968 Election

1972 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Popular Control

The importance of issues in deciding elections changes from one election to the next. As Key has shown, the issues of the role of the federal government in social life helped create the New Deal Democratic majority. In contrast, issues had only a marginal impact on the apolitical elections of the 1950s. Converse's technique of normal vote analysis reveals that issues were again highly related to the vote in 1968. This was particularly true of attitudes toward Vietnam, urban unrest and race, social welfare, and Johnson's performance as president.Yet, even in an election in which issues appear important, some can have very different consequences for popular control of policy than others. On some issues, the electorate exercises no effective constraints on leaders' policy choices. On others (e.g., the escalation in Vietnam), the electorate permits leaders a wide array of options when a policy is adopted and passes a retrospective judgment on such choices in subsequent elections. Finally, on still other issues, the public may limit the options of leaders at the time a policy is adopted. The paper suggests the stringent conditions necessary for this type of popular control to exist.

Una lettera italiana di J.A. Schumpeter

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-207
Author(s):  
Domenico da Empoli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The New Deal

Abstract This article refers to a letter written in 1931 by J. A. Schumpeter to an Italian professor, Celestino Arena, on the subject of the Italian edition of the Theory of Economic Growth.1931 was the last year spent by Schumpeter in Europe. The year after, he moved from Germany to the United States, where the New Deal environment would have profoundly changed his views about the role of the entrepreneur in modern society and, by consequence, about the future of capitalism.

The New Deal, the Immigrants and Congressman Vito Marcantonio

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore J. LaGumina
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Deal ◽  
York City ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
The New Deal

Like the Finns in Northern Minnesota, Italians in New York City accepted a politically radical leader, despite the fact that the majority of them remained conservative. According to the following author, this was due not to their heritage but rather to conditions they faced in their new environment. Future research might do well to focus attention upon the relative role of ethnic culture versus environment in producing radical attitudes among immigrants.

Leaving the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas during the New Deal

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-551
Author(s):  
Keith J. Volanto
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Roosevelt Administration ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Controversial Aspect

Every government policy has positive and negative externalities: offshoots and spin-offs that either are unplanned or exceed calculated expectations. New Deal agricultural policy was no exception. One controversial aspect of it is the alleged role of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in southern tenant and sharecropper displacement. Whether or not the officials of the AAA underestimated or even cared about this phenomenon, many contemporaries and most historians have criticized the Roosevelt administration for it.

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