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

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.

• The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928.
• The Search for American Political Development
• To Run a Constitution: The Legitimacy of the Administrative State
• Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States
• The Logic of Congressional Action
• The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
• Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics)
• The Public Administration Theory Primer
• Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965 (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)
• Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Third Edition)