Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction 1
8. One. Entrepreneurship, Networked Legitimacy, and Autonomy 14
9. Two. The Clerical State: Obstacles to Bureaucratic Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century America 37
10. Three. The Railway Mail, Comstockery, and the Waning of the Old Postal Regime, 1862–94 65
11. Four. Organizational Renewal and Policy Innovation in the National Postal System, 1890–1910 94
12. Five. The Triumph of the Moral Economy: Finance, Parcels, and the Labor Dilemma in the Post Office, 1908–24 144
13. Six. Science in the Service of Seeds: The USDA, 1862–1900 179
14. Seven. From Seeds to Science: The USDA as University, 1897–1917 212
15. Eight. Multiple Networks and the Autonomy of Bureaus: Departures in Food, Pharmaceutical, and Forestry Policy, 1897–1913 255
16. Nine. Brokerage and Bureaucratic Policymaking: The Cementing of Autonomy at the USDA, 1914–28 290
17. Ten. Structure, Reputation, and the Bureaucratic Failure of Reclamation Policy, 1902–14 326
18. Conclusion: The Politics of Bureaucratic Autonomy 353
19. Notes 369
20. Archival Sources 459
21. Index 465
22. PRINCETON STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS 481