{"product_id":"the-forging-of-bureaucratic-autonomy-9780691070100","title":"The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoliticians have traditionally devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and its relationship between bureaucratic and interest group activities. This work presents a study of bureaucratic autonomy in democratic regimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Levine Memorial Book Prize Winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award \"Carpenter's book is intellectually arresting--weaving quantitative and qualitative empiricism through an impressive array of theoretical propositions toward an attractive theory of bureaucratic autonomy in the administrative state ... [A]dmirably successful in adding to our narrative of the development of the American administrative state.\"--Anthony Bertelli, Public Administration Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii  Abbreviations xv  Introduction 1  One: Entrepreneurship, Networked Legitimacy, and Autonomy 14  Two: The Clerical State: Obstacles to Bureaucratic Autonomy  in Nineteenth-Century America 37  Three: The Railway Mail, Comstockery, and the Waning of the Old Postal Regime, 1862-94 65  Four: Organizational Renewal and Policy Innovation in the National Postal System, 1890-1910 94  Five: The Triumph of the Moral Economy: Finance, Parcels, and the Labor Dilemma in the Post Office, 1908-24 144  Six: Science in the Service of Seeds: The USDA, 1862-1900 179  Seven: From Seeds to Science: The USDA as University, 1897-1917 212  Eight: Multiple Networks and the Autonomy of Bureaus: Departures in Food, Pharmaceutical, and Forestry Policy, 1897-1913 255  Nine: Brokerage and Bureaucratic Policymaking: The Cementing of Autonomy at the USDA, 1914-28 290  Ten: Structure, Reputation, and the Bureaucratic Failure of Reclamation Policy, 1902-14 326  Conclusion: The Politics of Bureaucratic Autonomy 353  Notes 369  Archival Sources 459  Index 465","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534956724567,"sku":"9780691070100","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691070100.jpg?v=1755858263","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-forging-of-bureaucratic-autonomy-9780691070100","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}