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

by Stephen Skowronek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521288657
• ISBN13: 9780521288651
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"