A government by the people :
Goebel, Thomas, 1964-
A government by the people : direct democracy in America, 1890-1940 / Thomas Goebel. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002. - x, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-295) and index.
Introduction: Building a Government by the People -- From the Revolution to the Populists: The Antimonopoly Tradition in American Politics -- The Emergence of an Issue: Popular Sovereignty and the Rise of the Initiative and Referendum in the 1890s -- Republic or Democracy?: Direct Democracy and American Constitutionalism, 1890-1920 -- The Keystone in the Arch of Popular Government: Direct Democracy in the American West, 1898-1912 -- The Nigger Issue Is Sure to Be Raised: Direct Democracy in the South and North, 1908-1918 -- The Trinity of Democracy: Direct Democracy, Antimonopoly, and the Progressive Movement -- Direct Democracy in Action: The United States up to 1940 -- Inventing Modern Politics: Ballot Propositions, Election Campaigns, and Political Consultants in California, 1920-1940 -- Conclusion: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
0807826944 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807853615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Referendum--History.--United States
JF494.G64 2002
328.273/09/041 / JOE 2002
A government by the people : direct democracy in America, 1890-1940 / Thomas Goebel. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002. - x, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-295) and index.
Introduction: Building a Government by the People -- From the Revolution to the Populists: The Antimonopoly Tradition in American Politics -- The Emergence of an Issue: Popular Sovereignty and the Rise of the Initiative and Referendum in the 1890s -- Republic or Democracy?: Direct Democracy and American Constitutionalism, 1890-1920 -- The Keystone in the Arch of Popular Government: Direct Democracy in the American West, 1898-1912 -- The Nigger Issue Is Sure to Be Raised: Direct Democracy in the South and North, 1908-1918 -- The Trinity of Democracy: Direct Democracy, Antimonopoly, and the Progressive Movement -- Direct Democracy in Action: The United States up to 1940 -- Inventing Modern Politics: Ballot Propositions, Election Campaigns, and Political Consultants in California, 1920-1940 -- Conclusion: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
0807826944 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807853615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Referendum--History.--United States
JF494.G64 2002
328.273/09/041 / JOE 2002