Publisher's Synopsis
This book seeks to reconstruct "the American government history from its democratic, liberal and federal beginnings in the XVIII century until it converted into a leviathan in the XXI century," as well as analyzing in detail, in a diachronic manner, how the American government has implemented the three strategies on which they have stablished themselves as a central Estate: exemption, substitution, and privatization. It divides in four sections where it is studied, respectively, the emerge and consolidation of the republican model (1780-1860), then it passes to the improvisation and regulation strategies (1860-1920), the popular struggle to transform the central government (1920-1940) and, finally, the image of the American government as a central Estate "big and powerful," product of the Cold War (1940-2010), including a final evaluation on Barack Obamas administration.
