Carpenter D. Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA.; 2010. Publisher's Version i9205.pdf
Carpenter D. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Networks, Reputations and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862- 1928.; 2001. Publisher's Version
Carpenter D. Lesson, Portraiture, Method, Myth: Richard Bensel’s The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. 2003.
Carpenter D. “State Building through Reputation Building: Policy Innovation and Coalitions of Esteem at the Post Office 1883-1912”. Studies in American Political Development . 2000;14 (2) :121-55.
Carpenter D. “The Political Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy: A Reply to Kernell”. Studies in American Political Development . 2001;15 (1) :113-122.
Carpenter D. “The Multiple and Material Legacies of Stephen Skowronek”. Social Science History . 2003;27 (3) :465- 474.
Carpenter D. “Centralization and the Corporate Metaphor in Executive Departments 1880-1928”. Studies in American Political Development . 1998;12 (1) :106-147.
Carpenter D, Whittington K. “Executive Power in American Institutional Development”. Perspectives on Politics. 2003;1 (3) :495-513.
Carpenter D. “From Patronage to Policy: The Centralization Campaign in Iowa Post Offices 1880-1910”. Annals of Iowa . 1999.
Carpenter D, Sin G. “Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation: The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938”. Studies in American Political Development . 2007;21 (2) :149-180.
Carpenter D. “State Building through Reputation Building: Policy Innovation and Coalitions of Esteem at the Post Office 1883-1912”. Studies in American Political Development . 2000;14 (2) :121-55.
Carpenter D. “What is the Marginal Value of Analytic Narratives?”. Social Science History . 2000;24 (4) :653-67.
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