1st Edition

Building the Compensatory State An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform

By Robert F. Durant Copyright 2020
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Biography Chapter 1: Fuzzy Pictures in Our Heads? Chapter 2: The Founding Era, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1730–1824 Chapter 3: Inflexion Politics, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1824–1880 Chapter 4: Industrial Agonistes, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1880–1920 Chapter 5: Post-War Boom and Bust, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1920–1940 Chapter 6: World War II, The Cold War Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1940–1980 Chapter 7:Neoliberalism, the Corporate–Social Science Nexus, and American Administrative Reform, Circa 1980–2016 Chapter 8: Seeing with New Eyes? Bibliography Index

Biography



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.