The democratic experiment : new directions in American political history / edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer.

Contributor Jacobs, Meg, 1969-

Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.

Descriptionxi, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Democratic experiment: new directions in American political history / Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer -- Explaining the unexplainable: the cultural context of the sedition act / Joanne B. Freeman -- Affairs of office: the executive departments, the election of 1828, and the making of the democratic party / Richard R. John -- Legal transformation of citizenship in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak -- Bringing the constitution back in: amendment, innovation, and popular democracy during the Civil War era / Michael Vorenberg -- Democracy in the age of capital: contesting suffrage rights in gilded age New York / Sven Beckert -- Domesticity versus manhood rights: republicans, democrats, and "family values" politics, 1856-1896 / Rebecca Edwards -- Case for courts: law and political development in progressive era / Michael Willrich -- "Mirrors of desires": interest groups, elections, and the targeted style in twentieth-century America / Brian Balogh -- Pocketbook politics: democracy and the market in twentieth-century America / Meg Jacobs -- Uneasy relationship: democracy, taxation, and state building since the New Deal / Julian E. Zelizer -- All politics is local: the persistence of localism in twentieth-century America / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Suburban strategies: the volatile center in postwar American politics / Matthew D. Lassiter -- From Hartz to Tocqueville: shifting the focus from liberalism to democracy in America / James T. Kloppenberg -- Possibilities of analytical political history / Ira Katznelson.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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