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Political leadership --- Presidents --- History --- United States --- Jefferson, Thomas --- Adams, John Quincy --- Polk, James Knox --- Pierce, Franklin --- Lincoln, Abraham --- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano --- Roosevelt, Theodore --- Hoover, Herbert Clark --- Carter, Jimmy --- Reagan, Ronald --- Bush, George --- Bush, George, 1924-2018
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#SBIB:97G --- #SBIB:328H31 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA --- History of North America --- United States --- United States of America
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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.
United States --- Politics and government --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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In recent years, American political development has claimed the attention of a growing band of political scientists, and scholars have begun to speak of 'APD' as a subfield within the discipline. This book provides a justification for studying politics historically, not only for what it reveals about the roots of political affairs at the present time but what it teaches about politics as an ongoing activity in time, anytime. Placing the character of political institutions at the center of analysis, Orren and Skowronek survey past and current scholarship and attempt to outline a course of study for the future.
Political development. --- Development, Political --- Political science --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political --- Politics and government --- Political development --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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Policy is government's ready response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a closer look at this well-known reality of modern governance. In The Policy State they point out that policy is not the only way in which America was governed historically, and they describe the transformation that occurred as policy took over more and more of the work of government, emerging as the raison d'être of the state's operation. Rather than analyze individual policies to document this change, Orren and Skowronek examine policy's effect on legal rights and the formal structure of policy-making authority. Rights and structure are the principle elements of government that historically constrained policy and protected other forms of rule. The authors assess the emergence of a new "policy state," in which rights and structure shed their distinctive characteristics and take on the attributes of policy. Orren and Skowronek address the political controversies swirling around American government as a consequence of policy's expanded domain. On the one hand, the policy state has rendered government more flexible, responsive, and inclusive. On the other, it has mangled government's form, polarized its politics, and sowed deep distrust of its institutions. The policy state frames an American predicament: policy has eroded the foundations of government, even as the policy imperative pushes us ever forward, into an uncertain future.--
Policy sciences --- Political culture --- United States --- Politics and government.
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