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The Multiple and Material Legacies of Stephen Skowronek

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Daniel P. Carpenter
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Stephen Skowronek’s Building aNew American State remains one of the most influential books in political science and history of the past two decades. In political science, Building engendered a set of deep disciplinary transformations that simultaneously sent scholars sprinting into the history books for new cases with which to ply and test theory, goaded them into rethinking what it meant for the United States to possess a “state,” and welcomed them in embracing the study of institutions as a worthwhile endeavor in political science. In history, Skowronek’s book challenged scholars to reconceive the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as a fundamentally distinct period of governance, a peculiar challenge to the institutional forms that had dominated nineteenth-century American politics. Two decades later, historians and political scientists are still laboring to answer Skowronek’s call.

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Roundtable: Twenty Years after Building a New American State
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Social Science History , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , Fall 2003 , pp. 465 - 474
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2003 

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