Voter influence and big policy change: The positive political economy of the New Deal

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fleck, Robert K.
• 署名单位: Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/528999
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1-37
• 关键词: LABOR-STANDARDS-ACT; DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION; public-policy; PARTY REALIGNMENT; IMPACT; MODEL; house; REPRESENTATION; determinants; unemployment

摘要

What conditions cause major policy changes under representative government? This article addresses that question by providing a theoretically grounded analysis of a massive policy change: the New Deal. It explains how the economic problems of the early 1930s initiated changes on several dimensions of policy: federal spending, labor market regulation, and civil rights. The article concludes by considering the broader lessons learned from the political economy of the New Deal.