A Government by the People: Direct Democracy in America, 1890-1940Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 - Počet stran: 302 Between 1898 and 1918, many American states introduced the initiative, referendum, and recall--known collectively as direct democracy. Most interpreters have seen the motives for these reform measures as purely political, but Thomas Goebel demonstrates th |
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Building a Government by the People | 1 |
FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE POPULISTS The Antimonopoly Tradition in American Politics | 10 |
THE EMERGENCE OF AN ISSUE Popular Sovereignty and the Rise of the Initiative and Referendum in the 1890s | 25 |
REPUBLIC OR DEMOCRACY? Direct Democracy and American Constitutionalism 18901920 | 48 |
THE KEYSTONE IN THE ARCH OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT Direct Democracy in the American West 18981912 | 68 |
THE NIGGER ISSUE IS SURE TO BE RAISED Direct Democracy in the South and North 19081918 | 91 |
THE TRINITY OF DEMOCRACY Direct Democracy Antimonopoly and the Progressive Movement | 110 |
DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN ACTION The United States up to 1940 | 133 |
INVENTING MODERN POLITICS Ballot Propositions Election Campaigns and Political Consultants in California 19201940 | 158 |
The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same | 185 |
NOTES | 201 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 243 |
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