Brian Waddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 313501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Waddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Waddell |
| SIGNATURE | WADDELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7496-9445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939-48
While scholars have paid attention to the New Deal foundations of the modern U.S. state, in recent years the domestic impact of World War II has received greater scholarly awareness. Charlie Whitham, in his important new book on wartime business planners, greatly adds to our understanding of this period. Whitham recognizes that the New Deal left the nation with some serious unanswered questions, including what would become of an economic system l…
When the Past is Not Prologue
The debates over the Wagner Act could have represented a key moment in the ongoing development of the discipline of American Political Science, as neo-Marxist and related class analyses of American politics began to be taken seriously. Instead the debates have been forgotten, and neo-Marxism remains as marginalized as ever. This article examines how one influential scholar, Theda Skocpol, successfully characterized neo-Marxism as hopelessly reduc…
Class Politics, American-Style
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is both a work of political science and a contribution to broad public discussion of distributive politics. Its topic could not be more relevant to a US polity wracked by bitter partisan disagreements about taxes, social spending, financial regulation, social insecurity, and inequality. The political power of “t…
Capitalists Against Markets
Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. By Peter A. Swenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 448p. $24.95. Peter Swenson has written a thought-provoking and edifying work of comparative political economy that examines the causal relationship between national differences in capitalist interests and divergent welfare state development. Given Swenson's ambitious challenge …
The War against the New Deal
The Military-Industrial Complex
The War against the New Deal
Journal Article The War against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy. By Brian Waddell. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. x, 226 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87580-272-9.) Get access John W. Jeffries John W. Jeffries University of Maryland Baltimore CountyBaltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 282–283, https:…
Limiting National Interventionism in the United States
In response to business fears about growing national interventionism during the 1930s and 1940s, the United States channelled national state power into an indiosyncratic strong warfare/weak welfare governance paradigm. By making the welfare state a weak adjunct to a powerful warfare state and a subordinate and controversial part of postwar U.S. governance this paradigm has delimited, skewed, and distorted postwar U.S. political development. Postw…
Corporate Influence and World War II
Since many scholars focus on the New Deal as the foundation for modern U.S. governance, it is widely assumed that the United States is characterized by a weak state as compared to the welfare states of Western Europe. Yet, in the wake of World War II, the United States established a national security “warfare state” that rivaled the welfare states of Western Europe in scope of authority and operations and in its isolation from popular forces. The…
Economic Mobilization for World War II and the Transformation of the U.S. State
Forging the Military-Industrial Complex
Economic Mobilization for World War II and the Transformation of the U.S. State
When the Past is Not Prologue
The debates over the Wagner Act could have represented a key moment in the ongoing development of the discipline of American Political Science, as neo-Marxist and related class analyses of American politics began to be taken seriously. Instead the debates have been forgotten, and neo-Marxism remains as marginalized as ever. This article examines how one influential scholar, Theda Skocpol, successfully characterized neo-Marxism as hopelessly reduc…
Corporate Influence and World War II
Since many scholars focus on the New Deal as the foundation for modern U.S. governance, it is widely assumed that the United States is characterized by a weak state as compared to the welfare states of Western Europe. Yet, in the wake of World War II, the United States established a national security “warfare state” that rivaled the welfare states of Western Europe in scope of authority and operations and in its isolation from popular forces. The…
Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939-48
While scholars have paid attention to the New Deal foundations of the modern U.S. state, in recent years the domestic impact of World War II has received greater scholarly awareness. Charlie Whitham, in his important new book on wartime business planners, greatly adds to our understanding of this period. Whitham recognizes that the New Deal left the nation with some serious unanswered questions, including what would become of an economic system l…
Limiting National Interventionism in the United States
In response to business fears about growing national interventionism during the 1930s and 1940s, the United States channelled national state power into an indiosyncratic strong warfare/weak welfare governance paradigm. By making the welfare state a weak adjunct to a powerful warfare state and a subordinate and controversial part of postwar U.S. governance this paradigm has delimited, skewed, and distorted postwar U.S. political development. Postw…
Forging the Military-Industrial Complex
Economic Mobilization for World War II and the Transformation of the U.S. State
Corporate Influence and World War II
Since many scholars focus on the New Deal as the foundation for modern U.S. governance, it is widely assumed that the United States is characterized by a weak state as compared to the welfare states of Western Europe. Yet, in the wake of World War II, the United States established a national security “warfare state” that rivaled the welfare states of Western Europe in scope of authority and operations and in its isolation from popular forces. The…
Limiting National Interventionism in the United States
In response to business fears about growing national interventionism during the 1930s and 1940s, the United States channelled national state power into an indiosyncratic strong warfare/weak welfare governance paradigm. By making the welfare state a weak adjunct to a powerful warfare state and a subordinate and controversial part of postwar U.S. governance this paradigm has delimited, skewed, and distorted postwar U.S. political development. Postw…
The War against the New Deal
The Military-Industrial Complex
The War against the New Deal
Journal Article The War against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy. By Brian Waddell. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. x, 226 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87580-272-9.) Get access John W. Jeffries John W. Jeffries University of Maryland Baltimore CountyBaltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 282–283, https:…
Capitalists Against Markets
Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. By Peter A. Swenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 448p. $24.95. Peter Swenson has written a thought-provoking and edifying work of comparative political economy that examines the causal relationship between national differences in capitalist interests and divergent welfare state development. Given Swenson's ambitious challenge …
Class Politics, American-Style
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is both a work of political science and a contribution to broad public discussion of distributive politics. Its topic could not be more relevant to a US polity wracked by bitter partisan disagreements about taxes, social spending, financial regulation, social insecurity, and inequality. The political power of “t…
When the Past is Not Prologue
The debates over the Wagner Act could have represented a key moment in the ongoing development of the discipline of American Political Science, as neo-Marxist and related class analyses of American politics began to be taken seriously. Instead the debates have been forgotten, and neo-Marxism remains as marginalized as ever. This article examines how one influential scholar, Theda Skocpol, successfully characterized neo-Marxism as hopelessly reduc…
Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939-48
While scholars have paid attention to the New Deal foundations of the modern U.S. state, in recent years the domestic impact of World War II has received greater scholarly awareness. Charlie Whitham, in his important new book on wartime business planners, greatly adds to our understanding of this period. Whitham recognizes that the New Deal left the nation with some serious unanswered questions, including what would become of an economic system l…
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