Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making Book

Chapter 1 Formative Acts Stephen Skowronek Matthew Glassman 1 Part I The Actors Chapter 2 The Terrain of the Political Entrepreneur Adam Sheingate 13 Chapter 3 Leadership and American Political Development Bruce Miroff 32 Chapter 4 Agency and Popular Activism in American Political Culture James Block 52 Part II Structure and Opportunity Chapter 5 A Calculated Enchantment of Passion: Bryan and the "Cross of Gold" in the 1896 Democratic National Convention Richard Bensel 77 Chapter 6 Organizing for Disorder: Civil Unrest, Police Control, and the Invention of Washington, D.C. Daniel Kryder 105 Chapter 7 Partisan Entrepreneurship and Policy Windows: George Frisbie Hoar and the 1890 Federal Elections Bill Richard M. Valelly 126 Part III Resetting the Terms of Government and Politics Chapter 8 Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Failure Nicole Mellow Jeffrey K. Tulis 153 Chapter 9 Forging a New Grammar of Equality and Difference: Progressive Era Suffrage and Reform Eileen McDonagh 171 Chapter 10 The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Language, Culture, and Political Change Victoria Hattam Joseph Lowndes 199 Part IV At the Interface of Movements and the State Chapter 11 Presidents and Social Movements: A Logic and Preliminary Results Elizabeth Sanders 223 Chapter 12 Leaders, Citizenship Movements, and the Politics Rivalries Make Daniel J. Tichenor 241 Chapter 13 The President in the Vanguard: Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Insurgency Sidney M. Milkis 269 Part V Insiders Out to Change Things Chapter 14 Entrepreneurial Defenses of Congressional Power Eric Schickler 293 Chapter 15 Inventing the Institutional Presidency: Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Bureau of theBudget, 1939-49 Andrew Rudalevige 316 Chapter 16 Robust Action and the Strategic Use of Ambiguity in a Bureaucratic Cohort: FDA Officers and the Evolution of New Drug Regulations, 1950-70 Daniel P. Carpenter Colin D. Moore 340 Chapter 17 Retrospective: Formative Action and Second Acts Elisabeth Clemens 363 Notes 379 List of Contributors 429 Index 433