""The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy" is a major work sure to
influence future understandings of progressivism, state-building,
and American political development. Carpenter delves into the
highly variable world of bureaucratic entrepreneurship and
innovation in organization to explain the emergence of scattered
pockets of administrative autonomy within the executive branch of
American government. His carefully crafted analysis of the
conditions under which administrators have gained control over the
political authorities that ostensibly control them presents a
formidable challenge to the assumptions of political scientists,
and it should prompt some equally careful rethinking of the
operations of American democracy more generally."--Stephen
Skowronek, Yale University
"Although we tend to discuss the strength, or weakness, of state
autonomy as though it were the same for every agency, the fact of
the matter is that autonomy varies considerably from agency to
agency. In this excellent book, Daniel Carpenter is among the first
to make this observation and explore its implications."--Graham K.
Wilson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Whether we regard the modern state as fair as Athena, stepping
fully formed from the brow of Zeus, or as foul as Frankenstein,
sutured on a scientist's table, there had to be a time of
quickening when the limbs began to twitch and the brain began to
spark. In a splendid reinterpretation of the classic period of
American state formation, Dan Carpenter demonstrates that a
self-conscious mentality emerged because career bureaucratic
officials created overlapping networks between their agencies and
forged public reputations that secured support from thecitizenry.
Thus freed them from the influence of political parties, these
officials then turned on the very politicians who had created
them."--Richard Bensel, Cornell University
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