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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One of the Foundational Studies in the History of the American State,
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A little too optismistic about the ability of experts to use government authority to plan the direction of a society...and certainly too friendly to Woodrow Wilson and the American mobilization for the First World War (which is presented as a legitimate challenge to American state capacity)...nonetheless, this is one of the four or five most important works in American political history published in the last half century...and that is true even if you have to wait for the distributor to deliver it...
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economic mugwumps, national railroad regulation, antipooling clause, congressional counteroffensive, new governmental order, institutional power relationships, national administrative development, new institutional politics, national administrative power, bureau autonomy, national administrative authority, merit civil service, national administrative apparatus, administrative reconstruction, bureaucratic remedy, salary standardization, civil service reform movement, army legislation, constitutional stalemate, regulatory posture, shipper interests, executive civil service, merit employees, electoral compromise, znd sess Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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economic mugwumps, national railroad regulation, antipooling clause, congressional counteroffensive, new governmental order, institutional power relationships, national administrative development, new institutional politics, national administrative power, bureau autonomy, national administrative authority, merit civil service, national administrative apparatus, administrative reconstruction, bureaucratic remedy, salary standardization, civil service reform movement, army legislation, constitutional stalemate, regulatory posture, shipper interests, executive civil service, merit employees, electoral compromise, znd sess Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
War Department, Civil Service Commission, New York, Secretary of War, United States, Chief of Staff, National Guard, Supreme Court, Bureau of Efficiency, Commerce Court, War College, Civil War, War Industries Board, Adjutant General, Old Guard, Postmaster General, Commerce Act, Railroad Administration, Pendleton Act, Council of National Defense, Hepburn Act, Military Secretary, New Freedom, Theodore Roosevelt, Attorney General New!
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