The people's lobby : organizational innovation and the rise of interest group politics in the United States, 1890-1925
In this pathbreaking work, Elisabeth S. Clemens recovers the social origins of interest group politics in the United States. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centered on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by increasingly prominent legislative and administrative policymaking as well as the insistent participation of nonpartisan organizations
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xi, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780226109923, 9780226109930, 0226109925, 0226109933
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue 1: Partisan Politics: The Evil and the Remedy 2: Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change 3: The Experiment Station: Political Innovation and Diffusion among the States 4: Neither Friends Nor Enemies: Organized Labor and Partisan Politics 5: From Agrarian Protest to Business Politics 6: Politics without Party: The Organizational Accomplishments of Disenfranchised Women 7: Challenge and Crystallization: The Institutionalization of Reform in Three States 8: "The Menace of New Privilege" Coda: In Practice, in Theory Notes References Index