The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928. Cover
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The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928.

Daniel Carpenter

Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book, Daniel Carpenter contributes to our understanding of institutions by presenting a unified study of burea...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Carpenter examines the Progressive Era origins of modern agencies, detailing how their independence and expertise were deliberately built. The discussion highlighted its worth as a detailed account of the historical push for bureaucratic autonomy.

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The second is another book, it's by Dan Carpenter and it's called The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy. It looks at the Progressive Era when many of the agencies we now take for granted were developed...

— Episode: ‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme...

Episode: ‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supe...

Carpenter examines the Progressive Era origins of modern agencies, detailing how their independence and expertise were deliberately built. The discussion highlighted its worth as a detailed account of the historical push for bureaucratic autonomy.

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The second is another book, it's by Dan Carpenter and it's called The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy. It looks at the Progressive Era when many of the agencies we now take for granted were developed and their independence and expertise were forged. And it's really worth reading that account of the efforts that were undertaken to forge a sense of autonomy for administrative government and what the reasons were and why people thought that was so important and valuable.

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