This book is about governmental change in America. It examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the president, the Congress and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century. Stephen Skowronek argues that new institutional forms and procedures do not arise reflexively or automatically in response to environmental demands on government, but must be extorted through political and institutional struggles that are rooted in and mediated by pre-established governing arrangements. As the first full-scale historical treatment of the development of American national administration, this book will provide a useful textbook for public administration courses.

《量化历史研究》（第二辑）是清华大学第二届量化历史研讨班的10多篇优秀论文的合集。综述是在演讲老师的PPT和论文的基础上整理而成，主要涉及演讲老师探讨的问题及其意义，研究文献的现状和研究方法存在的问题，诸位作者分析了收集历史资料和量化数据的途径，并将定性资料进行量化，再根据量化后的数据做回归研究。此外，诸位作者还介绍了主要研究结论和方法论上的创新。《量化历史研究》（第二辑）吸纳了国内外优秀的学术资源，尤其注重量化方法、基础理论和前沿课题的跨学科研究，提倡贯通历史与现实、关联中国与世界，跨越经济、社会与文化等多个领域，运用现代社会科学范式解读历史中和变革中的中国。