Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The Regime Question 1
4. Part I Theoretical Framework
5. 1 The Regime Question and the First Wave 11
6. 2 A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Legislative Coalitions 61
7. Part II European Political Development
8. Introduction 81
9. 3 Early Parliamentarization in the United Kingdom 83
10. 4 Early Mass Suffrage in Germany 115
11. 5 Simultaneous Introduction in France 146
12. Conclusions 173
13. Part III American Political Development
14. Introduction 179
15. 6 Roots of the Regime Question in the United States 185
16. 7 The Persistence of Regime Contention in the United States 215
17. Conclusions 238
18. Conclusion 242
19. Appendix 255
20. Acknowledgments 263
21. Notes 267
22. Index 323
23. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 339