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Building the Compensatory State - An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform (Paperback)
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Building the Compensatory State - An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform (Paperback)
Series: Public Administration and Public Policy
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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.
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