The Business Community and the Origins of the 1875 Resumption Act

Unger, Irwin

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“…40 Republican efforts to resume specie payments accelerated following Democratic victories in the 1874 midterm elections, which were widely interpreted as a mandate supporting inflation. 41 Although the Republicans still narrowly controlled the Senate, the election had reversed the Republican majority in the House, giving the Democrats a sixty-seat majority. When the lame-duck Republicans convened in December 1874, they worried that the incoming Democratic majority would implement inflationary legislation, moving the country further from reinstating the gold standard.…”

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State Autonomy and American Political Development: How Mass Democracy Promoted State Power

DeCanio

2005

Stud. Am. Pol. Dev.

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In the 1980s, many scholars of both comparative and American politics argued that states often act autonomously from social demands. Rejecting reductionist assumptions regarding the primacy of social groups for public policy, both groups of scholars examine how government actors and preexisting institutional constraints influenced policy implementation. Since then, however, while the state has been retained as the primary unit of analysis for most studies of American political development, interest in the autonomy of the state has dwindled, and scholars have increasingly focused on how social groups and electoral outcomes explain state formation and public policy, especially in the nineteenth century. In some instances, scholars have even denied that state autonomy is a relevant concept for the study of American political development.

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Section: State Autonomy and American Political Development 121mentioning

confidence: 99%