The Party Period and Public Policy : American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era.

The Party Period and Public Policy : American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era.

These essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCormick, Richard L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Subjects:
1865-1933
Political parties > United States > History.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Political parties
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Ethnocultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American Voting Behavior; 2. The Realignment Synthesis in American History; 3. The Social Analysis of American Political History--After Twenty Years; 4. Political Parties in American History; 5. The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis; 6. Antiparty Thought in the Gilded Age; 7. Progressivism: A Contemporary Reassessment; 8. Prelude to Progressivism: The Transformation of New York State Politics, 1890-1910.

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