Beschreibung:
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.
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