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

By Stephen Skowronek

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1982
ISBN
9780511665080, 9780521230223, 9780521288651
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511665080
Google Books ID
W37zSNcybaEC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4499292 bytes)
Pages
400\400
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 development of American national administration, this book will provide a useful textbook for public administration courses.

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