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Pivotal Policies in Delaware: From Desegregation to Deregulation

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This book identifies ten pivotal policies in Delaware that still have an effect on public life in this small state. Much that has happened because the mid-twentieth century in Delaware public policy evolved from particular events. These events consisted of court decisions, laws passed, or incidents that happened to particular persons. They prompted public policies, the effects of that have been not clearly understood, that were regularly counter to what used to be anticipated, had undesirable side effects, or were inadequate to handle the problems encountered. This chronicle begins in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court confronted racially segregated Delaware with the need to desegregate its public schools ” with all deliberate speed.” Chapter 2 evolves from 1964, when the Supreme Court ordained—by virtue of its “one-person-one-vote” decision—that states end over-representation of rural voters in their state legislatures. Chapter 3 turns to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King followed by the Delaware National Guards occupation of Wilmington for over nine months. Chapter 4 makes a speciality of the 1970 establishment of the cabinet system in Delaware’s state government. Chapter 5 concentrates on the 1971 enactment to give protection to Delaware’s coastal zone, and its aftermath. Chapter 6 records 1977 as a turning point for Delaware’s response to increasing crime by option for increasing punishment instead of rehabilitating prisoners. Chapter 7 highlights how the General Assembly’s over-ride of the 1978 budget evoked consensus and bipartisan politics . Chapter 8 makes a speciality of the newly ensconced pro-business climate, illustrated in 1951 by the Financial Center Development Act that deregulated credit card banking. Chapter 9 tells that story of how Delaware sought to confront its high cancer rate, beginning with the 1990 report of the Governor’s advisory council. Chapter 10 concentrates on Delaware’s troubled efforts to develop energy policies, beginning with the 1999 legislation deregulating electric power.
The book’s Afterword broadly assesses how these major policy developments have effected systemic institutional change in how Delaware is governed.

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