Building a New American State : The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. The State-Building Problem in American Political Development: 1. The new state and American political development; 2. The early American state; Part II. State Building as Patchwork, 1877?1900: 3. Patching civil administration: the limits of reform in the party state; 4. Patching the army: the limits of provincial virtue; 5. Patching business regulation: the failure of administered capitalism; Part III. State Building as Reconstitution, 1900?1920: 6. Reconstituting civil administration: economy, efficiency, and the repoliticization of American bureaucracy; 7. Reconstituting the army: professionalism, nationalism, and the illusion of corporatism; 8. Reconstituting business regulation: administrative justice, scientific management, and the triumph of the independent commission; Epilogue; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.