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Reining in the State: Civil Society, Congress, and the Movement to Democratize the National Security State, 1970-1978

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Author	Scott, Katherine Anne
Title	Reining in the State: Civil Society, Congress, and the Movement to Democratize the National Security State, 1970-1978
Year Degree Awarded	2009
Department	History
Degree	Ph.D.
Abstract	This dissertation explores the battle to democratize the national security state, 1970-1978. It examines the neo-progressive movement to institutionalize a new domestic policy regime, in an attempt to force government transparency, protect individual privacy from state intrusion, and create new judicial and legislative checks on domestic security operations. It proceeds chronologically, first outlining the state's overwhelming response to the domestic unrest of the 1960s. During this period, the Department of Justice developed new capacities to better predict urban unrest, growing a computerized databank that contained millions of dossiers on dissenting Americans and the Department of Defense greatly expanded existing capacities, applying cold war counterinsurgency and counterintelligence techniques developed abroad to the problems of protests and riots at home. The remainder of the dissertation examines how the state's secret response to unrest and disorder became public in the early 1970s. It traces the development of a loose coalition of reformers who challenged domestic security policy and coordinated legislative and litigative strategies to check executive power.
Advisor	Farber, David R.
Committee Members	Immerman, Richard H. Bailey, Beth L. Greenberg, David R.
Degree Granting Institution	Temple University
Subject	History, United States Political Science, General
Keywords	Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Freedom of Information Act national security Privacy Act right to know transparency
Publisher	Temple University Libraries
Type	Dissertation
Format	Application/PDF
Number of Pages	309
Rights	The author has granted Temple University a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce his or her dissertation, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. This permission is granted in addition to rights granted to ProQuest. The author retains all other rights.
Description	Temple University--Theses
Digital Collection	Temple University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Contact	etd-library@listserv.temple.edu
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