Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928

Name: Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928
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ISBN: 9780691070100

ISBN-10: 0691070105

ISBN-13: 9780691070100

Edition: 2002

Authors: Daniel Carpenter

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Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book, Daniel Carpenter contributes to our understanding of institutions by presenting a unified study of bureaucratic autonomy in democratic regimes. He focuses on the emergence of bureaucratic policy innovation in the United States during the Progressive Era, asking why the Post Office Department and the Department of Agriculture became politically independent authors of new policy and why the Interior Department did not. To explain these developments, Carpenter offers a new theory of bureaucratic…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.61" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Entrepreneurship, Networked Legitimacy, and Autonomy



The Clerical State: Obstacles to Bureaucratic Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century America



The Railway Mail, Comstockery, and the Waning of the Old Postal Regime, 1862-94



Organizational Renewal and Policy Innovation in the National Postal System, 1890-1910



The Triumph of the Moral Economy: Finance, Parcels, and the Labor Dilemma in the Post Office, 1908-24



Science in the Service of Seeds: The USDA, 1862-1900



From Seeds to Science: The USDA as University, 1897-1917



Multiple Networks and the Autonomy of Bureaus: Departures in Food, Pharmaceutical, and Forestry Policy, 1897-1913



Brokerage and Bureaucratic Policymaking: The Cementing of Autonomy at the USDA, 1914-28



Structure, Reputation, and the Bureaucratic Failure of Reclamation Policy, 1902-14


Conclusion: The Politics of Bureaucratic Autonomy


Notes


Archival Sources


Index