FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AS A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR

Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Public Administrator

Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Public Administrator

Introduction

Thirty-second President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States is one of the most brilliant of American politicians, led the nation in the most turbulent era in its history when, in the worst economic crisis, he joined the Second World War. He applied the supposed New Deal and fought decisive battles to curb the power of monopolies and succeeded in establishing state control over important economic areas.

He was born in Hyde Park (New York) on January 30th of 1882. He was also a relative of President Theodore Roosevelt, and, like him, had studied at Harvard (also at the University of Columbia) and was secretary of the Navy (1913 -20), but unlike him, Franklin aligned with the Party Democrat. He was a lawyer but left the profession and entered in politics. He elected senator (1911) and governor of New York (1928), emphasizing its policy of combating poverty (Cantril, 1951).

Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Public Administrator

Faced with the challenge of the "great depression", Roosevelt urged a political program known as New Deal (New Deal). Advised by an environment of intellectual and technical progress, this program uses intuitive economic policy prescriptions that theorized about the same time John M.Keynes. Promoted intervention to pull the economy out of stagnation and to mitigate the social impact of the crisis, even at the cost of increasing the deficit and break some taboo of the free market. Thus, it brings to the ending of the golden age of American ultra-liberal, opening the welfare state.

In March 1933, Roosevelt appointed as administrator Hopkins federal public assistance to the poor, moved to lock in Washington. Hopkins defended the idea to get a paid job serving the poor more than the social assistance given directly by third parties, from a psychological point of view, increasing self-esteem of the beneficiaries rather than the simple aid received for free. Once appointed by Roosevelt, Hopkins extends the scope of aid programs of New Deal and introduces mechanisms which aid received is based on the provision of work on behalf of the federal government. With this project, helps Hopkins defined the scope of the FERA, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), aimed at people living in poverty or need, while another deputy Roosevelt, Harold Ickes, idea and directed the Public Works Administration, headed ...