The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Published on 25. August 2016
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-19-969791-5 (ISBN)
Description
Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics
subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income,
race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how)
they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or
surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance?
Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income,
race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how)
they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or
surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance?
Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
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Richard M. Valelly | Suzanne Mettler | Robert C. Lieberman
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
E-Book
09/2016
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€92.49
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Richard M. Valelly | Suzanne Mettler | Robert C. Lieberman
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
E-Book
08/2016
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€92.49
Available for download
Persons
Richard Valelly is Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, and author of American Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013), the multiple prize-winning The Two Reconstructions: The Stuggle for Black Enfranchisement (Chicago, 2004), and Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy (Chicago, 1989).
Suzanne Mettler is the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. Her recent books include Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream, and The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Programs Undermine American Democracy. She has been the recipient of the Derthick Award for Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell, 1998) that has
made an enduring contribution to the study of federalism, the Greenstone prize of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and on two occasions, the APSA's Kammerer Award for the best book on US national policy.
Robert C. Lieberman is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Harvard, 1998), which won the 1999 Lionel Trilling Award among other prizes, and Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton, 2005).
Suzanne Mettler is the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. Her recent books include Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream, and The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Programs Undermine American Democracy. She has been the recipient of the Derthick Award for Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell, 1998) that has
made an enduring contribution to the study of federalism, the Greenstone prize of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and on two occasions, the APSA's Kammerer Award for the best book on US national policy.
Robert C. Lieberman is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Harvard, 1998), which won the 1999 Lionel Trilling Award among other prizes, and Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton, 2005).
Editor
Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political ScienceClaude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Clinton Rossiter Professor of American InstitutionsClinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University
Provost and Professor of Political ScienceKrieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science Johns Hopkins University
Content
1 Suzanne Mettler and Richard Valelly: Introduction: The Distinctiveness and Necessity of American Political Development; I. Dynamic Explanations of Politics; 2 Stephen Skowronek and Karen Orren: Pathways to the Present; 3 Theda Skocpol: Analyzing American Political Development as It Happens; 4 Richard Bensel: Political Economy and American Political Development; 5 David F. Ericson: Liberalism and American Political Development; 6 Eileen McDonagh and Carol Nackenoff: Gender and the American State; 7 James A. Morone: Political Culture; 8 Jeffery A. Jenkins: APD and Rational Choice; 9 Kimberly J. Morgan: Comparative Politics and American Political Development; 10 Richard R. John: American Political Development and Political History; 11 Daniel J. Galvin: Qualitative Methods and American Political Development; II. Institutions: Inside the State; 12 Desmond King and Robert Lieberman: The American State; 13 Eric Schickler and Ruth Bloch Rubin: Congress and American Political Development; 14 Sidney M. Milkis: The Presidency and American Political Development: The Advent-and Illusion-of an Executive-centered Democracy; 15 Keith E. Whittington: Law and the Courts; 16 Colin D. Moore: Bureaucracy and the Administrative State; 17 Andrew Karch: The States and American Political Development; 18 Richardson Dilworth: Cities and Urbanization in American Political Development; 19 David Brian Robertson: Federalism and American Political Development; III. Political Processes and State-Society Relations; 20 Larry M. Bartels, Joshua D. Clinton, and John G. Geer: Representation; 21 David R. Mayhew: Patterns in American Elections; 22 David Karol: Political Parties in American Political Development; 23 Robert Y. Shapiro: Public Opinion; 24 Nolan McCarty: Polarization and American Political Development; 25 Richard Valelly: How Suffrage Politics Made, and Makes, America; 26 Dara Z. Strolovitch and Daniel J. Tichenor: Interest Groups and American Political Development; 27 David S. Meyer and Eulalie Laschever: Social Movements and the Institutionalization of Dissent in America; IV. Defining Status, Regulating Society; 28 Kimberley Johnson: The Color Line and the State: Race and American Political Development; 29 Julie Novkov: Identity and Law in American Political Development; 30 Christopher Howard: The Welfare State; 31 Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver: The Carceral State and American Political Development; 32 Richard Harris: The Political Development of the Regulatory State; 33 Stephen M. Engel: Seeing Sexuality: State Development and the Fragmented Status of LGBTQ Citizenship; 34 Patricia Strach: The Family