Stephen Skowronek

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Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Professor political and social science at Yale University. He is noted for his study of American national institutions and American political history. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the founding co-editor of Studies in American Political Development, a leading academic journal on American politics, and he served as President of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.

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• Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 Cambridge University Press 1982 ISBN 0-521-28865-7
• The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Belknap Press 1997 ISBN 0-674-68937-2
• The Search for American Political Development, Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 0-521-54764-4 (with Karen Orren)