Associational State

Brian Balogh is Compton Professor at the Miller Center and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America and cohosts the public radio show Backstory with the American History Guys.

• Introduction. Toward an Associational SynthesisChapter 1. The Enduring Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Governance in the United States: The Emergence of the Associational OrderChapter 2. Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive ReformChapter 3. "Mirrors of Desires": Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century AmericaChapter 4. Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern AmericaChapter 5. Meeting the State Halfway: Governing America, 1930-1950Chapter 6. Making Pluralism "Great": Beyond a Recycled History of the Great SocietyConclusion. How We Got HereNotesIndex

"Brian Balogh's stimulating collection of essays on the development of the modern American state . . . make[s] a significant contribution to a growing literature that seeks to understand the substantial and complex power of the modern American state rather than to deny it." (American Historical Review) "A compelling and novel portrait of American political development. Balogh contends that a different and powerful reading of American political history can be developed by focusing on the organization of relationships between the state and society." (Elizabeth Clemens, author of The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States) "A distinctive analysis of the growth of American government in the twentieth century, building its many insights on a commanding synthesis of American political development and the new political history." (James Sparrow, author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government)