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

Clemens, Elisabeth S.

ISBN 10: 0226109933 / ISBN 13: 9780226109930

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 1997

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• Titolo: The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925
• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226109933
• ISBN 13: 9780226109930
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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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.

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This study examines the social origins of interest group politics in the USA. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centred on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by increasingly prominent legislative and administrative policy-making, and by the insistent participation of nonpartisan organizations, including farmers, workers and women, who invented strategies to circumvent the parties. Voters learned how to monitor legislative processes, to hold their representives accountable at the polls, and to institutionalize their ongoing participation in shaping policy. The text analyzes organizational politics in three American states, California, Washington and Wisconsin, seeking to demonstrate how the political opportunity structure of federalism allowed regional innovations to exert leverage on national political institutions.