The democratic experiment
The democratic experiment: new directions in American political history
edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.
ISBN: 0691113777
DDC: 320.973
LCC: E183
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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