Brian H Balogh

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975

Chain Reaction seeks to explain how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II, how those experts translated that authority into political clout, and why that authority and political discretion declined in the 1970s. Brian Balogh's pathbreaking research into the inte...

[ Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945 1975 By Balogh, Brian ( Author ) Paperback 2009 ]

Chain Reaction : Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945 1975 (Hardcover)--by Brian Balogh [1991 Edition]

A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America by Brian Balogh (2009-03-23)

By Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade (Issues in Policy History, 6)

Each essay on this volume sheds light on aspects of the decade - actually a decade and a half - known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for the diverse social movements that threatened the essence of American public policy and mainstream society,and changed those entities in a fundamental way.

Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency: Miller Center of Public Affairs Books

In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history, and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of politica...

A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out...