Building the Compensatory State: An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform

ISBN-13: 9780367348441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 358 str.

Robert Durant

Opis

This book analyzes American administrative reform, taking a multidisciplinary approach, challenging existing notions of the nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these, important aspects of today’s conventional wisdom in public administration.

Spis treści

Biography Chapter 1: Fuzzy Pictures in Our Heads? Chapter 2: The Founding Era, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1730–1824 Chapter 3: Inflexion Politics, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1824–1880 Chapter 4: Industrial Agonistes, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1880–1920 Chapter 5: Post-War Boom and Bust, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1920–1940 Chapter 6: World War II, The Cold War Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1940–1980 Chapter 7:Neoliberalism, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1980–2016 Chapter 8: Seeing with New Eyes? Bibliography Index