Author: Simon SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Report to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York
Author: Simon SternePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Decline of Popular Politics
Author: Michael E. McGerrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195363760
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the 1984 presidential election, only half of the eligible electorate exercised its right to vote. Why does politics no longer excite many--of not most Americans? Michael McGerr attributes the decline in voting in the American North to the transformation of political style after the Civil War. The Decline of Popular Politics vividly recreates a vanished world of democratic ritual and charts its disappearance in the rapid change of industrial society. A century ago, political campaigns meant torchlight parades, spectacular pageants staged by opposing parties, and crowds of citizens attired in military dress or proudly displaying their crafts at well-attended rallies. The intense partisanship of presidential campaigns and party newspapers made political choice easy for people from all walks of life. In the late 1860s and 1870s, however, the rise of liberalism led to a rejection of partisanship by the press and a move towards "educational," rather than spectacular, electioneering. This style then lost out at the turn of the century to the sensational journalism of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, and the "advertised" campaigning of Mark Hanna and other politicians. McGerr shows how these new developments made it increasingly difficult for many Northerners to link their political impulses with political action. By the 1920s, Northern politics resembled our own public life today. A vital democratic culture had yielded to advertised campaigns, an emphasis on personalities rather than issues or partisanship, and low voter turnout.
The Machinery of Politics and Proportional Representation, Etc
Author: W. R. WAREThe American Law Review
Author: A Catalogue of the Library of the Athenæum
Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
second supplement to the catalogue of the library
Author: ... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Monied Metropolis
Author: Sven BeckertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316139360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power, and decisively put their mark on the age. Professor Beckert explores how capital-owning New Yorkers overcame their distinct antebellum identities to forge dense social networks, create powerful social institutions, and articulate an increasingly coherent view of the world and their place within it. Actively engaging in a rapidly changing economic, social, and political environment, these merchants, industrialists, bankers, and professionals metamorphosed into a social class. In the process, these upper-class New Yorkers put their stamp on the major political conflicts of the day - ranging from the Civil War to municipal elections. Employing the methods of social history, The Monied Metropolis explores the big issues of nineteenth-century social change.
The Government of Municipalities
Author: Dorman Bridgman EatonPublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Primary Elections
Author: Daniel Smith RemsenPublisher:
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Category : Primaries
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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