The End of the Republican Era (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series , Vol 5)

630 Pages·1996·1.54 MB·English

by  Theodore J. Lowi

The End of the Republican Era Julian J.
title: Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series ; V.
5
author: Lowi, Theodore J.
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin: 0806128879
print isbn13: 9780806128870
ebook isbn13: 9780806172323
language: English
Political science--United States--History,
Republicanism--United States--History,
Liberalism--United States--History,
subject
Conservatism--United States--History,
United States--Politics and government,
Ideology--United States--History.
publication date: 1996
lcc: JA84.U5L69 1996eb
ddc: 320.973
Political science--United States--History,
Republicanism--United States--History,
Liberalism--United States--History,
subject:
Conservatism--United States--History,
United States--Politics and government,
Ideology--United States--History.
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The End of the Republican Era
By Theodore J. Lowi
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON
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Also by Theodore J. Lowi
At the Pleasure of the Mayor: Patronage and Power in New York City,
18981958 (New York, 1964)
(ed.) Legislative Politics, U.S.A. (Boston:, 1962, 1965, 1974)
(with Robert F. Kennedy) The Pursuit of Justice (New York, 1964)
(ed.) Private Life and Public Order (New York, 1967)
The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
(New York, 1969, 1979)
The Politics of Disorder (New York, 1971, 1974)
(et al.) Poliscide: Scientists, the Giant Accelerator and the Metropolis
(New York, 1975, 1990)
American Government: Incomplete Conquest (New York, 1976, 1977,
1981)
(et al.) Nationalizing Government: Public Policies in America
(Beverly Hills, 1978)
The Personal President: Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled (Ithaca,
1985)
(with Benjamin Ginsberg) American Government: Freedom & Power
(New York, 1990, 1994)
(with Benjamin Ginsberg) Democrats Return to Power: Politics and
Policy in the Clinton Era (New York, 1994)
Book and series design by Bill Cason.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lowi, Theodore J.
The end of the republican era / by Theodore J. Lowi.
p. cm.(The Julian J. Rothbaum distinguished lecture series; v.5)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8061-2701-5 (hardcover, alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8061-2887-9 (paperback, alk. paper)
1. Political scienceUnited StatesHistory. 2. RepublicanismUnited
StatesHistory. 3. LiberalismUnited StatesHistory. 4. Conserva-
tismUnited StatesHistory. 5. United StatesPolitics and govern-
ment. 6. IdeologyUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. II. Series.
JA84.U5L69 1995
320.973dc20 94-31038
CIP
The End of the Republican Era is Volume 5 in the Julian J. Rothbaum
Distinguished Lecture Series.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright © 1995 by Theodore J. Lowi. Preface to the Paperback
Edition
copyright © 1996 by Theodore J. Lowi. Published by the University
of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University.
All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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To the memory
of Annick Percheron
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures viii
Foreword ix
by Carl B. Albert
Preface to the Paperback Edition xi
Preface xxvii
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Chapter 1. The Constitution and the Public Philosophy 3
Chapter 2. The End of Liberalism 33
Chapter 3. The Republican Era 80
Chapter 4. The Conservative Era: The Patrician Right 109
and the Struggle for a Concordance Between Capitalism
and Christianity
Chapter 5. The End of Conservatism 158
Chapter 6. Restoring the Liberal Republic: Ideology and 218
the Multidimensional Polity
Index 261
Page viii
Tables
1.1 6
The Federal System: Specialization of Functions Among
the Three Levels of Government, the Traditional System,
ca. 18001933
1.2 12
IdeologiesSome Definitions
1.3 19
Traditions of American Political Thought
2.1 37
The Political Economy of the New Deal
2.2 45
Rule of Law: From Boundaries to Frontiers
2.3 55
The Regulation Binge of the 1970s
2.4 67
Post-New Deal Policies: The New Social Regulation and
Social Policy
2.5 69
Elements of the American Left
5.1 176
Focus for Nationalization of Conservatism
5.2 200
Elements of a Republican Era State Theory, 19802000
5.3 205
Policies and Interests in the Republican Coalition
Figures
6.1 224
The Unidimensional Polity
6.2 227
Liberalism as a Dimension All Its Own, with Radical
Liberalism at Both Ends
6.3 228
The Liberal Continuum with the Extreme Reversed
6.4 229
The Conservative Community of Belief
6.5 232
Where the Norm Is Not Normal: Polarization Between the
Orthodox Left and the Revisionist Left
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Foreword
Among the many good things that have happened to me in my life,
there is none in which I take more pride than the establishment of the
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the
University of Oklahoma, and none in which I take more satisfaction
than the Center's presentation of the Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished
Lecture Series. The series is a perpetually endowed program of the
University of Oklahoma, created in honor of Julian J. Rothbaum by
his wife, Irene, and son, Joel Jankowsky.
Julian J. Rothbaum, my close friend since our childhood days in
southeastern 0klahoma, has long been a leader in Oklahoma civic
affairs. He has served as a Regent of the