<P> In a series of articles, political sociologist Theda Skocpol has emphasized the issue of "state capacity" as an often - crippling constraint . Ambitious reform ideas often failed, she argued, because of the absence of a government bureaucracy with significant strength and expertise to administer them . Other more recent works have stressed the political constraints that the New Deal encountered . Conservative skepticism about the efficacy of government was strong both in Congress and among many citizens . Thus some scholars have stressed that the New Deal was not just a product of its liberal backers, but also a product of the pressures of its conservative opponents . </P> <P> During the New Deal the communists established a network of a dozen or so members working for the government . They were low level and had a minor influence on policies . Harold Ware led the largest group which worked in the Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA). Secretary of Agriculture Wallace got rid of them all in a famous purge in 1935 . Ware died in 1935 and some individuals such as Alger Hiss moved to other government jobs . Other communists worked for the National Labor Relations Board, the National Youth Administration, the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theater Project, the Treasury and the Department of State . </P> <P> Since 1933, politicians and pundits have often called for a "new deal" regarding an object--that is, they demand a completely new, large - scale approach to a project . As Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. (1971) has shown, the New Deal stimulated utopianism in American political and social thought on a wide range of issues . In Canada, Conservative Prime Minister Richard B. Bennett in 1935 proposed a "new deal" of regulation, taxation and social insurance that was a copy of the American program, but Bennett's proposals were not enacted and he was defeated for reelection in October 1935 . In accordance with the rise of the use of U.S. political phraseology in Britain, the Labour government of Tony Blair termed some of its employment programs "new deal", in contrast to the Conservative Party's promise of the "British Dream". </P> <P> The Works Progress Administration subsidized artists, musicians, painters and writers on relief with a group of projects called Federal One . While the WPA program was by far the most widespread, it was preceded by three programs administered by the US Treasury which hired commercial artists at usual commissions to add murals and sculptures to federal buildings . The first of these efforts was the short - lived Public Works of Art Project, organized by Edward Bruce, an American businessman and artist . Bruce also led the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later renamed the Section of Fine Arts) and the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP). The Resettlement Administration (RA) and Farm Security Administration (FSA) had major photography programs . The New Deal arts programs emphasized regionalism, social realism, class conflict, proletarian interpretations and audience participation . The unstoppable collective powers of common man, contrasted to the failure of individualism, was a favorite theme . </P>

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