Books written by Karen Orren

The Policy State

Jeffrey Rosen, interview with Chief Justice John Roberts, “Roberts Rules,” Atlantic, January–February 2007; Lincoln Caplan, “John Roberts's Court,” New Yorker, June 29, 2015; Robert Barnes, “The Political Wars Damage Public Perception ...

The Search for American Political Development

Multiple Traditions As Greenstone scores Hartz for giving too little credit to conflicts within liberalism , Rogers Smith claims that Hartz's analysis was excessively preoccupied with them . 62 In Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of ...

Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States

To the modern mind , the word “ jurisdiction ” is likely to conjure up a division of labor among public law courts . But in feudal law , jurisdiction was understood as a more pervasive concept - in Maitland's words , " one of the main ...

The Policy State: An American Predicament

Larry Berman, The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921–1979 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), 105–130; Richard P. Nathan, The Administrative Presidency (New York: Wiley, 1983), 28–57; John Hart, ...

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution This Companion provides a broad, historically informed introduction to the study of the U.S. constitutional system. In place of the usual laundry list of constitutional clauses ...

Corporate Power and Social Change: the Politics of the Life Insurance Industry

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution

Finally, the volume covers a number of subjects that are rarely discussed in works aimed at a general audience, but which are critical to ensuring that constitutional rights are honored in the day-to-day lives of citizens.

Studies in American Political Development: An Annual

This book studies and examines theoretical and empirical research on political development and institutional change in the United States.

The Policy State: An American Predicament

In The Policy State they point out that policy is not the only way in which America was governed historically, and they describe the transformation that occurred as policy took over more and more of the work of government, emerging as the ...