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The democratic experiment : new directions in American political history / edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- Federal government--United States--History.
- Federal government.
- United States--Politics and government--Historiography.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (437 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life. Revealing the fierce struggles that have taken place over the role of the federal government and the character of representative democracy, the authors trace the contested and dynamic evolution of the national polity. The contributors, who represent the leading new voices in the revitalized field of American political history, offer original interpretations of the nation's political past by blending methodological insights from the new institutionalism in the social sciences and studies of political culture. They tackle topics as wide-ranging as the role of personal character of political elites in the Early Republic, to the importance of courts in building a modern regulatory state, to the centrality of local political institutions in the late twentieth century. Placing these essays side by side encourages the asking of new questions about the forces that have shaped American politics over time. An unparalleled example of the new political history in action, this book will be vastly influential in the field. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Brian Balogh, Sven Beckert, Rebecca Edwards, Joanne B. Freeman, Richard R. John, Ira Katznelson, James T. Kloppenberg, Matthew D. Lassiter, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael Vorenberg, and Michael Willrich.
- Contents:
- Democratic experiment: new directions in American political history / Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer
- Explaining the unexplainable: the cultural context of the sedition act / Joanne B. Freeman
- Affairs of office: the executive departments, the election of 1828, and the making of the democratic party / Richard R. John
- Legal transformation of citizenship in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak
- Bringing the constitution back in: amendment, innovation, and popular democracy during the Civil War era / Michael Vorenberg
- Democracy in the age of capital: contesting suffrage rights in gilded age New York / Sven Beckert
- Domesticity versus manhood rights: republicans, democrats, and "family values" politics, 1856-1896 / Rebecca Edwards
- Case for courts: law and political development in progressive era / Michael Willrich
- "Mirrors of desires": interest groups, elections, and the targeted style in twentieth-century America / Brian Balogh
- Pocketbook politics: democracy and the market in twentieth-century America / Meg Jacobs
- Uneasy relationship: democracy, taxation, and state building since the New Deal / Julian E. Zelizer
- All politics is local: the persistence of localism in twentieth-century America / Thomas J. Sugrue
- Suburban strategies: the volatile center in postwar American politics / Matthew D. Lassiter
- From Hartz to Tocqueville: shifting the focus from liberalism to democracy in America / James T. Kloppenberg
- Possibilities of analytical political history / Ira Katznelson.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612157097
- 9781282157095
- 1282157094
- 9781400825820
- 1400825822
- OCLC:
- 609845337
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