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Federalism, State Action, and “Critical Episodes” in the Growth of American Government: Reply to Ballard Campbell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
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Ballard Campbell claims to have identified “flaws in [the] analytical perspective” I employed in Crisis and Leviathan (1987). My sins of omission, he alleges, arise from concentrating on the growth of federal economic powers, thereby losing sight of the various noneconomic dimensions of government and “ignoring the reality of federalism in the United States,” especially before 1930. The upshot is “an imbalance that distorts the history of American governance.”
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