1. Creative syncretism; Part I. Brandies and the Theory of Regulated Competition: 2. Republican experimentalism and regulated competition; 3. Learning from railroad regulation; 4. The origins of an ambiguous Federal Trade Commission; Part II. Regulated Competition in Practice: 5. Cultivational governance at the Federal Trade Commission; 6. Deliberative polyarchy and developmental associations; 7. From collective action to collaborative learning: developmental association in commercial printing; Part III. Regulated Competition Contested: 8. The politics of accountability; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Civic enterprise; Appendix A. Industries and number of associations with at least substantial involvement in developmental association, by industry group.
This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the US by tracing the development of regulated competition.
Gerald Berk is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. His first book, Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1870-1916 (1994) was awarded the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Award for Best Book in Politics and History. He is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Hagley Museum and Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has been published in Studies in American Political Development, Politics and Society, the Journal of Policy History, and Social Science History.
'Berk's nuanced study of Brandeis is about the rejection of
preordained categories and rigid formulas, by extraordinary
policymakers and also by social scientists who seek to understand
them. Ultimately, it is about the limitless possibility of politics
to reorder familiar arrangements of state and economy in the
interests of a differently-conceived world. Its publication could
hardly be more timely.' Karen Orren, University of California, Los
Angeles
'A masterpiece of counter-factual reasoning, this book challenges
the orthodoxy that markets and regulation are incompatible
alternatives. Berk shows how Louis Brandeis' theory of 'regulated
competition' offered the principles for a very different kind of
relationship between government and economy that could have changed
the course of the twentieth-century. At the juncture at which
America was transforming from a market economy and a laissez-faire
state to a corporate economy and a regulative state, Berk's
compelling historical analysis shows that the path could have been
different. This is institutional history at its best.' William Roy,
University of California, Los Angeles
'Berk recovers for us an improbably prescient Brandeis: an advocate
and institutional architect who helps demonstrate the feasibility
of a market order of 'regulated competition' that avoids the
traditional, limited choice between antipathy to all business
cooperation or regulated monopoly and, instead, encourages
innovation while reducing the dangers of concentration (and we
might hope today – the viral diffusion of catastrophic behaviors)
through a Federally sponsored exchange of best practices and cost
benchmarks within and across industry groups. This is history the
way and when we need it.' Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School
'Civic Enterprise raises to a new level the distinctive strength of
Gerry Berk's work: his capacity to radically alter our
understanding of classic issues and episodes in American political
development on the basis of new and original historical research
inspired by current theoretical and comparative debates, while
recasting and enriching the categories of those debates themselves
in light of his empirical findings. This book is thus likely to
attract a wide interdisciplinary audience and consolidate Berk's
reputation as one of the premier scholars of American political
development of his generation.' Jonathan Zeitlin, University of
Wisconsin
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