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Dissertation Information for William Stuart Collins

NAME:
- William Stuart Collins

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Arizona State University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Philip VanderMeer

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Noel J. Stowe
- Bradford Luckingham

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The New Deal in Arizona

Abstract: This state study of the New Deal uses primary and secondary sources to examine the implementation of the programs and policies of the Roosevelt Administration in Arizona. Arizona provides a unique set of characteristics that determined which programs would be of greater significance. These characteristics include the prominence of the federal government as a land owner, the dominance of the copper industry as an employer, and the presence of a large population of reservation Indians. Programs that were of relatively little significance in many other parts of the country were of great importance in Arizona. Such programs included the Indian New Deal, the copper code of the National Recovery Administration, and the Taylor Grazing Act. The implementation of New Deal programs depended greatly on state and local administration. Decentralization meant that local administrative agencies had a wide latitude to determine the kind of work projects undertaken. In Arizona, the political dominance of Democratic supporters of the New Deal meant that most state officials did what they could to smooth implementation of programs.

This study also finds that the New Deal significantly influenced state government. National administrators pressured state authorities to enact laws and create agencies to efficiently administer the national programs. This trend began just prior to the New Deal with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The legislature frequently met in special sessions to deal with New Deal-related matters. It passed acts to implement Public Works Administration projects, state programs under the Social Security Act, and soil conservation districts. By 1937, the incentives built into New Deal Programs caused Arizona to create a modern welfare bureaucracy. The New Deal altered the relationship between citizens and their government. State officials in 1932-33 declared that only the federal government could provide the level of relief needed in the worst part of the Great Depression. By providing that assistance, the New Deal created a permanent expectation among citizens that the national government would act in times of domestic emergency.


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