Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE v
3. CONTENTS ix
4. TABLES x
5. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 2. Electing Representatives 9
7. 3. The Lawmakers and Lawmaking 31
8. 4. The Contested Issues 54
9. 5. Party Voting 79
10. 6. Legislating Community Mores 98
11. 7. Ethnicity and Dimensions of Legislative Voting 122
12. 8. Economic Policy 150
13. 9. The Issues of Government and the Roots of Partisanship 175
14. 10. Legislative Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century 194
15. Appendix on Sources and Methods 205
16. Notes 219
17. Index 257