TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goebel,Thomas
TI  - A government by the people: direct democracy in America, 1890-1940 
SN  - 0807826944 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JF494.G64 2002 
U1  - 328.273/09/041 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Referendum
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -