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

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

Durant, Robert F.

Hardcover

Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0367348446
ISBN13: 9780367348441
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the importance of taking history seriously. With few exceptions, little recent scholarship in the field has looked longitudinally (rather than cross-sectionally), contextually, and theoretically over extended time periods at big questions in public administration. One such big question involves the evolution of American administrative reform and its link since the nation's founding to American state building. This book addresses this gap by analyzing administrative reform in unprecedented empirical and theoretical ways. In taking a multidisciplinary approach, it incorporates recent developments in cognate research fields in the humanities and social sciences that have been mostly ignored in public administration. It thus challenges 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.

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