A Window of Autonomy: State Autonomy & the Forest Service in the Early 1990s

Abstract

The state has made a comeback in political science over the last twenty years. A synthesis of sorts of traditional and behavioral approaches to the study of politics, statist theory, in its methodology, is at once historical, institutional, and empirical. This study of the U.S. Forest Service both illustrates and critiques the statist approach, and also adds to the growing literature on the Progressive Movement's role in the building of an American state in the early years of this century.