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the Roosevelt administration's overconfidence that recovery was underway led it to deflate in 1937, which produced a "double-dip" recession

reached its ghastly climax in what was called "liquidationism"

Given his Hobbesian view of the human need for a single Sovereign, that bodes ill

Sometimes they are driven not by instrumental rationality but by what Weber called value rationality, sacrificing personal calculative interest to an overall ideology.

It is in this power vacuum--what social movement theorists now call the political opportunity structure--that social movements are successfully mobilized.