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

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.