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The Creation of the American Republic
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Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers
David Epstein,Sharyn O'Halloran +1 more
TL;DR: The first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches was proposed by Epstein and O'Halloran as discussed by the authors, who examined major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992 and described the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy.
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Ideas, Institutions, and Political Order: Explaining Political Change
TL;DR: The authors argue that change arises out of "friction" among mismatched institutional and ideational patterns, which makes it hard to explain important episodes of political change, such as American civil rights policy in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
TL;DR: Elliott as mentioned in this paper compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century.
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Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America
TL;DR: A study of the period 1870-1920 illustrates that American political culture is better understood as the often conflictual and contradictory product of multiple political traditions, than as the expression of hegemonic liberal or democratic political traditions.