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The Impact of America's Becoming Corporate: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

William H. Becker
Affiliation:
The George Washington University

Abstract

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Review Article
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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Notes

1. Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass., 1977),Google Scholar and Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, Mass., 1991)Google Scholar. For a discussion of Chandler's influence on the study of business history, see the introductory essay in McCraw, Thomas K., ed., The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business (Boston, 1991).Google Scholar

2. Weir, Margaret, Orloff, Ann Shola, and Skocpol, Theda, eds., The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (Princeton, 1988).Google Scholar The social science literature on state building is large. Useful discussions of theoretical issues can be found in Evans, Peter B., Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, and Skocpol, Theda, eds., Bringing the State Back In (New York, 1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Krasner, Stephen, “Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics,Comparative Politics (1984) 16: 223–46CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Katzenstein, Peter, ed., In Between Power and Plenty (Madison, 1978).Google Scholar For a full discussion of the development of the American state more reflective of the theoretical literature, see Skowronek, Stephen, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (New York, 1982).CrossRefGoogle Scholar