| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Canada and the United States

Robert Harrison. Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 293. $75.00.

This well-researched, clearly written, and provocative study seeks to delineate the emergence of the modern American regulatory state during the early twentieth century through a close examination of the congressional decision-making process. Robert Harrison is quick to point out that the impetus for such regulatory activity did not come from corporations looking to influence congressional decision making. In fact, he finds that corporate influences often lined up against any expansion of federal power rather than in support of it. Nor should we look to a model that suggests that social pressures coming from a variety of well-organized interest groups triggered progressive state building. Instead, the development of the American state was "shaped by the actions of key administrators and political entrepreneurs who exploited the space created by interest-group conflict and the balance of economic forces" (p. 9).

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