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Federalism, State Action, and “Critical Episodes” in the Growth of American Government: Reply to Ballard Campbell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Robert Higgs
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Ballard Campbell claims to have identified “flaws in [the] analytical perspective” I employed in Crisis and Leviathan (1987). My sins of omission, he alleges, arise from concentrating on the growth of federal economic powers, thereby losing sight of the various noneconomic dimensions of government and “ignoring the reality of federalism in the United States,” especially before 1930. The upshot is “an imbalance that distorts the history of American governance.”

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Politics
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Social Science History , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , Winter 1992 , pp. 579 - 582
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1992 

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