Author : Stephen Skowronek
Release : 1982
Genre : United States
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Building a New American State by : Stephen Skowronek
Download or read book Building a New American State written by Stephen Skowronek. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.