思想及其后果：本杰明·哈里森与经济危机的种子，1889-1893

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2020.1881354

M. Taylor

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很少有人研究本杰明·哈里森的总统任期，这为政治理念在政府中发挥的惊人作用提供了宝贵的见解。哈里森是一位非常合格的总统，他表现出精力充沛的领导能力和政治技巧，但他对共和党的意识形态承诺，将其视为一项近乎神圣的事业，压倒了其他重要的考虑，从而导致了美国历史上最大的经济灾难之一:1893-1897年的大萧条。他对共和党的看法是在该党早期领导反对奴隶制的政治斗争时形成的;但当哈里森成为总统后，共和党在贸易保护主义、退伍军人养老金和白银等问题上的利益驱使他支持的政策，最终导致经济陷入混乱，花了数年时间才恢复过来。

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Ideas and Their Consequences: Benjamin Harrison and the Seeds of Economic Crisis, 1889-1893

ABSTRACT The little-studied presidency of Benjamin Harrison offers valuable insights into the surprising role that political ideas can play in government. Harrison was a highly qualified president who demonstrated energetic leadership and political skill, but whose ideological commitment to the Republican party as a quasi-sacred enterprise overrode other important considerations, thereby contributing to one of the greatest economic catastrophes in U.S. history: the Depression of 1893-1897. His ideas about the Republican party were forged in its early years, when it led the political battle against slavery; but when Harrison became president, the party’s interests in trade protectionism, veterans’ pensions, and silver drove him to support policies that eventually sent the economy into a tailspin from which it took years to recover.

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.