TY - BOOK AU - Daniel P Carpenter AU - Daniel P Carpenter TI - The forging of bureaucratic autonomy: reputations, networks, and policy innovation in executive agencies, 1862-1928 T2 - Princeton studies in American politics SN - 9780691070100 U1 - 351.7309034 CAR PY - 2001/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - : Princeton University Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Political planning N1 - Entrepreneurship, networked legitimacy, and autonomy -- The clerical state: obstacles to bureaucratic autonomy in nineteenth-century America -- The Railway Mail, Comstockery, and the waning of the old postal regime, 1862-94 -- Organizational renewal and policy innovation in the National Postal System, 1890-1910 -- The triumph of the moral economy: finance, parcels, and the labor dilemma in the post office, 1908-24 -- Science in the service of seeds: the USDA, 1862-1900 -- From seeds to science: the USDA as university, 1897-1917 -- Multiple networks and the autonomy of bureaus: departures in food, pharmaceutical, and forestry policy, 1897-1913 -- Brokerage and bureaucratic policymaking: the cementing of autonomy at the USDA, 1914-28 -- Structure, reputation, and the bureaucratic failure of reclamation policy, 1902-14 -- Conclusion: the politics of bureaucratic autonomy N2 - Politicians have traditionally devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and its relationship between bureaucratic and interest group activities. This work presents a study of bureaucratic autonomy in democratic regimes ER -