Historicizing the "Deep State" - Populism and Administrative Statehood in Transatlantic Debates 1930 - 1950

• In Event: Policy and the Growing Bureaucratic State

Brief Overview

The paper will examine a number of explanations for the supposed "absence" of the state in post-war American political thought before reconstructing an early 20th century debate about the anti-populist "deep state".

Author

• Paul Petzschmann, Carleton College