Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism

America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick, a leading scholar of American government. She explores the nature of the compound republic - that middle ground between national and locl authority - with attention both to its enduring features and to the changes wrought in the twentieth century by Progressivism, the New Deal, and the civil rights revolution.

Author(s): Martha Derthick
Publisher: Brookings Inst Press
Published: 2001
Pages: 196
Categories: Political Science