Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920

Examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the President, the Congress, and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century.

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• http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/american-history-general-interest/building-new-american-state-expansion-national-administrative-capacities-18771920
• http://www.amazon.com/Building-New-American-State-Administrative/dp/0521288657