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- Title
TAKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF POLITICS: MURRAY ROTHBARD ON POLITICAL AND LOCAL REFORM DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA.
- Authors
NEWMAN, PATRICK
- Abstract
This paper analyzes and elaborates on what Murray Rothbard would have included in Chapter 10 of his nine-chapter manuscript on the Progressive Era (Rothbard 2017). In Chapter 10, Rothbard planned to describe the political and local reforms of the fourth party system (1896-1932). The reforms included voter registration, ballot changes, direct election of senators, the primary system, attacks on machine politics, the institutionalization of civil service, and the expansion of city governments. While many historians have argued that these changes were designed to expand democracy and reduce corruption, Rothbard would have shown how they were intended to restrict democracy and centralize power in the hands of established elites.
- Subjects
POLITICAL reform; PRACTICAL politics; VOTER registration; MUNICIPAL government; CIVIL service
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1098-3708
- Publication type
Article