Chapter One. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Chapter One. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History 1
6. Chapter Two. Explaining the Unexplainable: The Cultural Context of the Sedition Act 20
7. Chapter Three. Affairs Of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party 50
8. Chapter Four. The Legal Transformation of Citizenship In Nineteenth-Century America 85
9. Chapter Five. Bringing the Constitution Back in: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy During the Civil War Era 120
10. Chapter Six. Democracy in the Age of Capital: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York 146
11. Chapter Seven. Domesticity Versus Manhood Rights 175
12. Chapter Eight. The Case for Courts 198
13. CHAPTER NIN.E “Mirrors of Desires”: Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America 222
14. CHAPTER TEN. Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America 250
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State Building since the New Deal 276
16. CHAPTER TWELVE. All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America 301
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar American Politics 327
18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. From Hartz to Tocqueville: Shifting the Focus from Liberalism to Democracy in America 350
19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Possibilities of Analytical Political History Ira Katznelson 381
20. Index 401