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Roosevelt and the Democrats in the 1930s: triumph and troubles -- The Republicans: "We want Willkie" -- The Democrats: "the Sphinx" -- The campaign: the challenger vs. the "champ" -- The election: "another great Democratic victory

Particularly in the past decade or so, New Deal scholarship has taken a new turn, and the period after the mid-1950s has received substantial scrutiny and significant rethinking. Standard accounts of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency have long held that the New Deal was essentially a product of Roosevelt's first term, of the "First New Deal" of 1933 and the "Second New Deal" of 1935. Legislative stalemate, program consolidation and sometimes reduction, and attention to foreign and military affairs then marked the remainder of Roosevelt's presidency. A new and interdisciplinary literature, however, has demonstrated that the later New Deal of FDR's second and third terms was more distinctive and more important than the established view suggests. There has developed an understanding that from 1937 on the New Deal entered an important new phase, a third stage—that there was a "Third New Deal" crucial to understanding the New Deal and the direction of liberal policy and the American state.

Die gängige Darstellung der 30er Jahre als einer Periode ohne nennenswerte Neuerungen in der US-amerikanischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik bedarf der Überarbeitung. Während der zweiten Regierungsperiode Franklin D. Roosevelts entwickelten liberale Ökonomen und Politiker eine Art ökonomische Bill of Rights und ein entsprechendes, von keynesianischem Denken stark geprägtes, wirtschaftpolitisches Konzept. 1944 stand das gedankliche Gebäude eines neuen New Deal im Zentrum der nationalen Politik der Demokraten. (SWP-PrF)