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Building a new American state: the expansion of national administrative capacities, 1877-1920

Stephen Skowronek
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Part I The state-building problem in American political development (page 1)
    • 1 The new state and American political development (page 3)
    • 2 The early American state (page 19)
  • Part II State building as patchwork, 1877-1900 (page 37)
    • Introduction The triumph of the state of courts and parties (page 39)
    • 3 Patching civil administration: the limits of reform in the party state (page 47)
    • 4 Patching the army: the limits of provincial virtue (page 85)
    • 5 Patching business regulation: the failure of administered capitalism (page 121)
  • Part III State building as reconstitution, 1900-1920 (page 163)
    • Introduction From patchwork to reconstitution (page 165)
    • 6 Reconstituting civil administration: economy, efficiency, and the repoliticization of American bureaucracy (page 177)
    • 7 Reconstituting the army: professionalism, nationalism, and the illusion of corporatism (page 212)
    • 8 Reconstituting business regulation: administrative justice, scientific management, and the triumph of the independent commission (page 248)
  • Epilogue Beyond the state of courts and parties - American government in the twentieth century (page 285)
  • Notes (page 293)
  • Selected bibliography (page 353)
  • Index (page 375)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CJPS 16.1 (Mar. 1983): 187-189 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3227576
RAH 11.2 (Jun. 1983): 248-252 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702151
RPol 45.2 (Apr. 1983): 317-319 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1406973
JAMST 17.3 (Dec. 1983): 478-479 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27554393
JAH 70.1 (Jun. 1983): 168-169 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1890589
SH 10.3 (Oct. 1985): 409-412 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4285470
APSR 77.4 (Dec. 1983): 1044-1045 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1957599
AHR 89.1 (Feb. 1983): 213-214 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1856079
CPS 16.2 (Jan. 1984): 223-246 http://www.jstor.org/stable/421608
SSH 27.3 (Fall 2003): 425-441 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_science_history/v027/27.3zelizer.html
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Published: c1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521288651 (paper)
  • 9780511995132 (ebook)
  • 9780521230223 (hardcover)
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