The state in a blue uniform

Polity

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-354

  Polsky, Andrew J ^a   Adler, William D ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

American political development; Collective goods; Economic development; Partisanship; United States Army

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849104721     PISSN: 00323497     EISSN: 17441684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/pol.2008.7     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Susan B. Carter et al., eds., Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present-Volume 5 (Millennial Edition) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 91-92; percentages calculated by authors.
2. For a stimulating account of the Army's political role in promoting liberal democracy, see Ira Katznelson, "Flexible Capacity: The Military and Early American Statebuilding? in Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development, eds. Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 82-110.
3. Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
4. Daniel Carpenter, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
5. During the Civil War partisanship played a major role in Army affairs. For example, on the influence of partisan considerations on the choice of key Union field commanders, see Andrew J. Polsky '"Mr. Lincoln's Army' Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865," Studies in American Political Development 16 (Fall 2002): 176-207.
6. Theodore J. Crackel, Mr. Jefferson's Army: Political and Social Reform of the Military Establishment, 1801-1809 (New York: New York University Press, 1987).
7. Merritt Roe Smith, Harper's Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977).
8. Mark R. Wilson, The Business of Civil War Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Chapter 2.
9. William B. Skelton, An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992).
10. Polsky, '"Mr. Lincoln's Army' Revisited."
11. Robert Allen Rutland, The Presidency of James Madison (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1990), chapters 6-7.
12. David P. Currie, "Rumors of War: Presidential and Congressional War Powers, 1809-1829," University of Chicago Law Review 67 (Winter 2000): 11-13.
13. Peter Baldwin, "Beyond Strong and Weak: Rethinking the State in Comparative Perspective," Journal of Policy History 17 (2005): 12-33.
14. See also Laura Jensen, Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 6-7.
15. The other was the post office, as Richard John has demonstrated. See Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
16. William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959), chapters 5-9.
17. Andrew R. L. Cayton, '"Separate Interests' and the Nation-State: The Washington Administration and the Origins of Regionalism in the Trans-Appalachian West," The Journal of American History 79 (1992): 39-67.