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

Clemens, Elisabeth S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226109933 ISBN 13 : 9780226109930

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 in three states—California, Washington, and Wisconsin—she demonstrates how the political opportunity structure of federalism allowed regional innovations to exert leverage on national political institutions.

An authoritative statement on the changes in American politics during the Progressive Era, this book will interest political scientists, sociologists, and American historians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226109933
• ISBN 13: 9780226109930
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 472
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• Personne responsable: non disponible