Building a New American State The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920

Name: Building a New American State The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920
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ISBN: 9780521288651

ISBN-10: 0521288657

ISBN-13: 9780521288651

Edition: 1982

Authors: Stephen Skowronek

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This book is about governmental change in America. It examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the president, the Congress and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century. Stephen Skowronek argues that new institutional forms and procedures do not arise reflexively or automatically in response to environmental demands on government, but must be extorted through political and institutional struggles that are rooted in and mediated by pre-established governing arrangements. As the first full-scale historical treatment of the…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University and co-author most recently of The Search for American Political Development.



Preface



The State-Building Problem in American Political Development



The new state and American political development



The early American state



State Building as Patchwork, 1877-1900



Patching civil administration: the limits of reform in the party state



Patching the army: the limits of provincial virtue



Patching business regulation: the failure of administered capitalism



State Building as Reconstitution, 1900-1920



Reconstituting civil administration: economy, efficiency, and the repoliticization of American bureaucracy



Reconstituting the army: professionalism, nationalism, and the illusion of corporatism



Reconstituting business regulation: administrative justice, scientific management, and the triumph of the independent commission


Epilogue


Notes


Selected bibliography


Index