Stephen Skowronek

Matthew Glassman

Seventeen essays illuminate critical junctures in American political development—from the social movements for women's suffrage, civil rights, and workers' rights, to Reconstruction, to the regulation of prescription drugs—as vantage points from which to examine how change is enacted.

American Politics in the Making

Formative Acts

Karen Orren

Introduction: Public policy and state formation -- The policy motive -- Rights in the policy state -- Structure in the policy state -- Politics in the policy state

An American Predicament

The Policy State

A classic on the politics of leadership, now expanded to include a new chapter on the Obama presidency. Examines the typical political problems that presidents confront and how they assert their authority in the service of change.

Stephen Skowronek

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