TY - BOOK AU - Balogh,Brian TI - The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century T2 - Politics and Culture in Modern America SN - 9780812247213 AV - JK271 .B285 2015 U1 - 320.973 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Associations, institutions, etc KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Political participation KW - Pressure groups KW - American Studies KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - American History KW - Political Science KW - Public Policy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. Toward an Associational Synthesis --; Chapter 1. The Enduring Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Governance in the United States: The Emergence of the Associational Order --; Chapter 2. Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform --; Chapter 3. ''Mirrors of Desires'': Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America --; Chapter 4. Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America --; Chapter 5. Meeting the State Halfway: Governing America, 1930-1950 --; Chapter 6. Making Pluralism ''Great'': Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society --; Conclusion. How We Got Here --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civic goals while protecting individual freedoms. Brian Balogh proposes a new view of U.S. politics that illuminates how public and private actors collaborate to achieve collective goals. This "associational synthesis" treats the relationship between state and civil society as fluid and challenges interpretations that map the trajectory of American politics solely along ideological lines. Rather, both liberals and conservatives have extended the authority of the state but have done so most successfully when state action is mediated through nongovernmental institutions, such as universities, corporations, interest groups, and other voluntary organizations.The Associational State provides a fresh perspective on the crucial role that the private sector, trade associations, and professional organizations have played in implementing public policies from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first century. Balogh examines key historical periods through the lens of political development, paying particular attention to the ways government, social movements, and intermediary institutions have organized support and resources to achieve public ends. Exposing the gap between the ideological rhetoric that both parties deploy today and their far less ideologically driven behavior over the past century and a half, The Associational State offers one solution to the partisan gridlock that currently grips the nation UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291377 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291377 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812291377.jpg ER -