Stanley G. Payne
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110654
- eISBN:
- 9780300130805
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110654.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter, which examines the establishment of the new government, along with its goals and the outbreak of corruption scandals, argues that president Alcalá Zamora himself was the main obstacle ...
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This chapter, which examines the establishment of the new government, along with its goals and the outbreak of corruption scandals, argues that president Alcalá Zamora himself was the main obstacle to more effective government. Despite his laudable goal of defending a centrist and liberal democratic regime, Zamora possessed a kind of messianic complex, a gigantic ego which led him to think that he possessed the right to manipulate every aspect of government as much as he wished.Less
This chapter, which examines the establishment of the new government, along with its goals and the outbreak of corruption scandals, argues that president Alcalá Zamora himself was the main obstacle to more effective government. Despite his laudable goal of defending a centrist and liberal democratic regime, Zamora possessed a kind of messianic complex, a gigantic ego which led him to think that he possessed the right to manipulate every aspect of government as much as he wished.
Rosemary A. Stevens
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042077
- eISBN:
- 9780813043456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042077.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the political controversy accompanying the decision to launch the U.S. Veterans Bureau (now the Department of Veterans Affairs) during the Harding administration in 1921, its ...
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This chapter describes the political controversy accompanying the decision to launch the U.S. Veterans Bureau (now the Department of Veterans Affairs) during the Harding administration in 1921, its implementation problems between August 1921 and March 1923, and its rapid shift to normalization in 1923–24. It seeks to answer the questions of how and why, in the business-oriented Harding administration of 1921, the United States established a huge government organization that developed a system of federal hospitals and health care for veterans. Government reorganization to provide business efficiency was the initial strategy. But charges against the bureau's first director, from mismanagement to corruption, deflected attention from broader questions. Under its second, business-oriented director, the bureau, with its “socialized” veterans’ hospital and health care system, was stabilized as an enduring American institution under the rhetoric of management efficiency.Less
This chapter describes the political controversy accompanying the decision to launch the U.S. Veterans Bureau (now the Department of Veterans Affairs) during the Harding administration in 1921, its implementation problems between August 1921 and March 1923, and its rapid shift to normalization in 1923–24. It seeks to answer the questions of how and why, in the business-oriented Harding administration of 1921, the United States established a huge government organization that developed a system of federal hospitals and health care for veterans. Government reorganization to provide business efficiency was the initial strategy. But charges against the bureau's first director, from mismanagement to corruption, deflected attention from broader questions. Under its second, business-oriented director, the bureau, with its “socialized” veterans’ hospital and health care system, was stabilized as an enduring American institution under the rhetoric of management efficiency.
