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OverviewIn this pathbreaking work, Elisabeth S. Clemens recovers the social origins of interest group politics in the United States. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centered on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by increasingly prominent legislative and administrative policy-making as well as the insistent participation of non-partisan organizations. Clemens sheds new light on how farmers, workers, and women invented strategies to circumvent the parties. Voters learned to monitor legislative processes, to hold their representatives accountable at the polls, and to institutionalize their ongoing participation in shaping policy. Closely analyzing the organizational politics in three states—California, Washington, and Wisconsin—she demonstrates how the political opportunity structure of federalism allowed regional innovations to exert leverage on national political institutions. An authoritative statement on the changes in American politics during the Progressive Era, this book will interest political scientists, sociologists, and American historians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elisabeth S. ClemensPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.765kg ISBN: 9780226109923ISBN 10: 0226109925 Pages: 467 Publication Date: 02 September 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue 1: Partisan Politics: The Evil and the Remedy 2: Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change 3: The Experiment Station: Political Innovation and Diffusion among the States 4: Neither Friends Nor Enemies: Organized Labor and Partisan Politics 5: From Agrarian Protest to Business Politics 6: Politics without Party: The Organizational Accomplishments of Disenfranchised Women 7: Challenge and Crystallization: The Institutionalization of Reform in Three States 8: The Menace of New Privilege Coda: In Practice, in Theory Notes References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationElisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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