Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State.

The group has a studied critique of contemporary American government, and it has an overarching vision of what a reconstituted state might look like. I Building a New American State i turned back to the Progressive era for new insight into the prior transition, the transition between the nineteenth-century state (a "state of courts and parties") and the administrative state that would tighten its hold on American government over the ensuing decades. When we proposed that American government has become a "policy state", we meant something specific. [Extracted from the article]