The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

by Michelle Whyman, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments.

With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022662594X
• ISBN13: 9780226625942
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"