People's Lobby Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925

Name: People's Lobby Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925
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ISBN: 9780226109923

ISBN-10: 0226109925

ISBN-13: 9780226109923

Edition: 1997

Authors: Elisabeth S. Clemens

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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 policy-making as well as the insistent participation of non-partisan organizations. Clemens sheds new light on how farmers, workers, and women invented strategies to circumvent the parties. Voters learned to monitor legislative processes, to hold their representatives accountable at the polls, and to institutionalize their ongoing participation in shaping policy. Closely analyzing the organizational politics…

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/2/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 467
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Prologue



Partisan Politics: The Evil and the Remedy



Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change



The Experiment Station: Political Innovation and Diffusion among the States



Neither Friends Nor Enemies: Organized Labor and Partisan Politics



From Agrarian Protest to Business Politics



Politics without Party: The Organizational Accomplishments of Disenfranchised Women



Challenge and Crystallization: The Institutionalization of Reform in Three States



"The Menace of New Privilege" Coda: In Practice, in Theory


Notes


References


Index