Title Building the compensatory state : an intellectual history and theory of American administrative reform / Robert F. Durant

Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) Series Public Administration and Public Policy Public administration and public policy. Contents Fuzzy pictures in our heads? -- The founding era, the corporate-social science nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1730-1824 -- Inflexion politics, the corporate-social science nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1824-1880 -- Industrial agonistes, the corporate-social science nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1880-1920 -- Post-war boom and bust, the corporate-social science nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1920-1940 -- World War II, the Cold War nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1940-1980 -- Neoliberalism, the corporate-social science nexus, and American administrative reform, circa 1980-2016 -- Seeing with new eyes? Summary 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. Author Robert F. Durant explores the administrative state in a new light as part of a compensatory state--driven, shaped, and amplified since the nation's founding by a corporate-social science nexus of interests. Arguing that this nexus of interests has contributed to citizen estrangement in the United States, he offers a broad empirical and theoretical understanding of the political economy of administrative reform, its role in state building, and its often paradoxical results. Offering a reconsideration of conventional wisdom in public administration, this book is required reading for all students, scholars, or practitioners of public administration, public policy, and politics "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Robert F. Durant is Professor Emeritus, American University. He is the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards for his research, teaching, and service to the field Print version record Subject Public administration -- United States Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General. Administrative agencies -- Management Politics and government Public administration SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000576894 1000576892 0429328370 9780429328374 9781000586879 1000586871 9781000581881 1000581888

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