The Policy State by Karen Orren
Policy is government's response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a close look at this well-known reality of modern governance: the expanded domain of the policy state.
A sterling example of political science at its best: analytically rigorous, historically informed, and targeted at questions of undeniable contemporary significance… Orren and Skowronek uncover a transformation that revolutionized American politics and now threatens to tear it apart-- Timothy Shenk * New Republic *
Wherever you start out in our politics, this book will turn your sense of things sideways and make you rethink deeply held assumptions. It’s a model of what political science could be, but so rarely is. -- Yuval Levin * National Review *
A gripping narrative…opening up new avenues for reflection along methodological, conceptual, and normative lines. -- Bernardo Zacka * Contemporary Political Theory *
The Policy State shows us how the policy gears whir over time and how the policy regime has profoundly shifted the Constitutional frame of American governance. These changes—the irresistible spread of policy efforts—render policy-making more difficult, more transient, and more frustrating on every political side. A masterful, powerful, original, and important book! -- James A. Morone, Brown University
This book’s distinct contribution is to provide a unifying account of diverse legal developments in the areas of both rights and constitutional structure that together have led to the emergence of what the authors call the modern ‘policy state.’ -- Richard H. Pildes, New York University School of Law
Wherever you start out in our politics, this book will turn your sense of things sideways and make you rethink deeply held assumptions. It’s a model of what political science could be, but so rarely is. -- Yuval Levin * National Review *
A gripping narrative…opening up new avenues for reflection along methodological, conceptual, and normative lines. -- Bernardo Zacka * Contemporary Political Theory *
The Policy State shows us how the policy gears whir over time and how the policy regime has profoundly shifted the Constitutional frame of American governance. These changes—the irresistible spread of policy efforts—render policy-making more difficult, more transient, and more frustrating on every political side. A masterful, powerful, original, and important book! -- James A. Morone, Brown University
This book’s distinct contribution is to provide a unifying account of diverse legal developments in the areas of both rights and constitutional structure that together have led to the emergence of what the authors call the modern ‘policy state.’ -- Richard H. Pildes, New York University School of Law
Karen Orren is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674728745 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674728742 |
| Title | The Policy State |
| Author | Karen Orren |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2017-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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