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Regulator-in-Chief: The Presidency, Red Tape, and the Transformation of the Administrative State, 1975-1981224 views
Author
Erlandson, Erik, History - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Erlandson, Erik, As-History, University of Virginia
Abstract
This dissertation examines the growth of presidential power after the 1974 Watergate scandal. Traditionally, scholars of American Political Development and American legal history attribute the reemergence of executive power in the late twentieth century to President Reagan and his administration's sweeping attempts to slash federal regulations. Conversely, this project shows that a coalition of Democrats working in the Carter Administration centralized presidential power ahead of the Reagan Era in response to the economic crises of the mid and late 1970s. In doing so, however, Carter aides laid the groundwork for the sweeping deregulation of the Reagan Revolution.
Degree
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Keywords
American Legal History; American Political Development; American Presidency; Administrative Law; 20th-Century U.S. History
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Erlandson, Erik. Regulator-in-Chief: The Presidency, Red Tape, and the Transformation of the Administrative State, 1975-1981. University of Virginia, History - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2018-11-28, https://doi.org/10.18130/V3-WAS6-3176.
