The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23294398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne ca /21 Jh Mettler, Robert C Lieberman (0000-0002-9677-8946) |
| Editors | Richard Valelly (0000-0002-2854-6991), Suzanne Mettler (0000-0002-5165-3349), Robert Lieberman |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697915.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2476685357 |
| ISBN | 9780199697915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 77 |
| References cited | 61 |
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?
Constitution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Scholarship · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Political Science Research and Education · Public Administration
Public Policy and Political Dysfunction
Policy Feedback
Putting Federalism in Its Place
Responsive States
Selling Selective Anti-Statism
Race was a motivating factor
Black Lives Matter, American political development, and the politics of visibility
American Political Development in the Era of Black Lives Matter
“The Latter-Day General Grant”
When Presidents Limit Bureaucratic Power
Substantive Divergence
The Policyscape and the Challenges of Contemporary Politics to Policy Maintenance
Ripples from the First Wave
Conceptualizing Criminal Governance
Illiberalism Unbound
Comparing America
The Struggle to Remake Politics
Developmental Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Politics
Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy
Tracing policy change
The South in American Political Development
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago
Urban Governance and the American Political Development Approach
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health
Charting Change in the City
The Changing Urban Political Order and Politics of Space
The Populist Theory of the State in Early American Political Thought
Race, the Canadian Census, and Interactive Political Development
The Political Effects of Policy Drift
The United States Military, State Development, and Slavery in the Early Republic
Whose Work Counts? Congressional Republicans and the Battle over Employment Status, 1947–48
Labor's Enduring Divide
Pockets of Weakness in Strong Institutions
Constructive Welfare
Barack Obama, Organizing for Action, and Executive-Centered Partisanship
The “Proper Organs” for Presidential Representation
The Politics of Clemency in the Early American Presidency
Social Capital, Civic Labor, and State Capacity in the Early American Republic
Overflowing Channels
Legislating for American Empire
Organizing Staff in the U.S. Senate
Globally Visible Environmental Protest
Bringing contention in
Trump’s Legacy and the Liberal International Order
Congressional Approval and Responsible Party Government
Attenuated Governance
Compared to what
Veterans as a Social Movement
Institutional legacies and temporary assistance for needy families spending decisions
QCA e Process Tracing
Game theory and the study of American political development
Let’s not conflate APD with political history, and other reflections on “Causal Inference and American Political Development”
The inferential opportunity of specificity
Causal inference and American political development
Randomized experiments by government institutions and American political development
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Applying regression discontinuity designs to American political development
A developmental approach to historical causal inference
Animal Advocacy and the 'Good Cop-Bad Cop' Radical Flanking of Laboratory Research
Re-Evaluating consensus in New Zealand election reform
American Imperial Development
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
Present at the Destruction
Multiparty America
The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the US House of Representatives
Forceful Federalism against American Racial Inequality
Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball
Back to the Future
The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada
Studying Public Policy
A Drop in the Ocean
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
Movements and Parties
Political Science and Polling
How Local Governments Govern Culture War Conflicts
Multilevel Regime Decoupling
Roots of reform
Political Order in Changing Societies
Gaining access
Belated feudalism
The liberal tradition in America
Policymaking for social security
Mobilizing public opinion
Labor in American politics.
Still a house divided
Civic Ideals
Building a New American State
Essence of Decision
Polarized America
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Governing the Commons
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State
Policy Makes Mass Politics
It Didn't Happen Here
Fighting for Democracy
Disasters and the American State
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Seeing Like a State
Fugitive Justice
Politics and Industrialization
Research Preregistration in Political Science
American Political Development from Citizens' Perspective
Monetary Politics
State Building Through Partnership
Has Polling Enhanced Representation? Unearthing Evidence from the Literary Digest Issue Polls
Political Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change, and American Political Development
Turning Points, Bottlenecks, and the Fallacies of Counterfactual History
The Democratic Wish
The Making of an American Senate
Nonprofits for Hire
Labor Visions and State Power
The Two Reconstructions
Fear Itself
Trading Blows
American Politics
Reconstructing Reconstruction
Warfare State
The 1970s
The American Warfare State
Dismantling the welfare state
American Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in the United States
The Causal Logic of Critical Junctures
The Dysfunctional Congress
Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry
Pooling Disparate Observations
Political Science as a Vocation
Political power beyond the State
The New Institutionalism
The Making of an American Senate
History, Historiography, and Political Science
Democratizing the Enemy
Alternative Tracks
How Political Parties Can Use the Courts to Advance Their Agendas
Why is There No Labor Party in the United States
Making Use of the Past
| Unique citing works | 77 |
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| Citations per year | 5,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |