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New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State

  • Novak, William J.
  • Legal History
Book, Whole
Published
2022

"Of Rights and Regulation"

  • Novak, William J.
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
Book Chapter
Published
2022

"Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Origins of Modern American Social Police"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Criminal Law
  • Law and Social Sciences
The Intimate State: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History
Book Chapter
Published
2021

"The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Constitutional Law
States of Exception in American History
Book Chapter
Published
2020

"Epilogue: The Need for a New and Critical Democracy"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Legal Writing and Research
  • Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
The Tocqueville Review
Journal Article
Published
2020

"The Progressive Idea of Democratic Administration"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2019

"Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of Business"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Legal History
Business History Review
Journal Article
Published
2019

"Social Freedom, Democracy and the Political: Three Reflections on Axel Honneth's Idea of Socialism"

  • Novak, William J.
Tocqueville Review
Journal Article
Published
2019

"Revolutionary State Formation"

  • Novak, William J.
State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood
Book Chapter
Published
2018

"The Administrative State in America"

  • Novak, William J.
The Administrative State
Book Chapter
Published
2017

"The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation"

  • Novak, William J.
Corporations and American Democracy
Book Chapter
Published
2017

"The Continental Idea of the State"

  • Novak, William J.
Max Planck Handbooks of Public Law in Europe, Volume I: State and Administration
Book Chapter
Published
2017

Corporations and American Democracy

  • Novak, William J.
Book, Whole
Published
2017

"Democratic States of Unexception: Towards a New Genealogy of the American Political"

  • Novak, William J.
The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
Book Chapter
Published
2017

"Putting the 'Public' in Public Administration: The Rise of the Public Utility Idea"

  • Novak, William J.
Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw
Book Chapter
Published
2017

"Corporations and American Democracy: An Introduction"

  • Novak, William J.
Corporations and American Democracy
Introduction
Published
2017

"Response: The People's Welfare Redux"

  • Novak, William J.
American Journal of Legal History
Journal Article
Published
2017

Boundaries of the State in U.S. History

  • Novak, William J.
Book, Whole
Published
2015

"Beyond Max Weber: The Need for a Democratic (Not Aristocratic) Theory of the Modern State"

  • Novak, William J.
Tocqueville Review
Journal Article
Published
2015

"The Concept of the State in American History"

  • Novak, William J.
Boundaries of the State in U.S. History
Book Chapter
Published
2015

"Beyond Stateless Democracy"

  • Novak, William J.
Tocqueville Review
Journal Article
Published
2015

"A Revisionist History of Regulatory Capture"

  • Novak, William J.
Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It
Book Chapter
Published
2013

"Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France"

  • Novak, William J.
Journal of the Civil War Era
Journal Article
Published
2013

"Making the Modern American Legislative State"

  • Novak, William J.
Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
Book Chapter
Published
2012

"Toward a History of the Democratic State"

  • Novak, William J.
Tocqueville Review
Journal Article
Published
2012

"Political History after the Cultural Turn"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Legal History
Perspectives on History
Journal Article
Published
2011

"Legal Realism and Human Rights"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Human Rights
History of European Ideas
Journal Article
Published
2011

"AHR Exchange: Long Live the Myth of the Weak State? A Response to Adams, Gerstle, and Witt"

  • Novak, William J.
American Historical Review
Journal Article
Published
2010

"Constitutional Theology: The Revival of Whig History in American Public Law"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Michigan State Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2010

"Law and the Social Control of American Capitalism"

  • Novak, William J.
  • Legal History
Emory Law Journal
Journal Article
Published
2010
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