Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction. The Democratic Wish 1
5. Part I. State Building and the People
6. 1. Representation, Revolution, and Republic 33
7. 2. The Resistible Rise of the Common Man: Jacksonian Democracy 74
8. 3. Administrative Science and the People: The Progressive Movement 97
9. 4. Progressive Administration without the People: The New Deal 129
10. Part II. The People and Reform: The Political Reconstruction of Class, Race, and Profession
11. 5. The Reconstruction of Working-Class Politics 145
12. 6. The Reconstruction of Racial Politics 186
13. 7. The Reconstruction of Medical Politics 253
14. 8. Elusive Community: Democratic Wishes for the 21st Century 322
15. Notes 339
16. Index 391