The midlife crisis of the new political history

Journal of American History

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 158-166

  Baker, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 33750119567     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2567411     Document Type: Review

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1. For an elegant account of how organizational forms shaped the direction and political options of social movements, see Elisabeth S. Clemens, The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 (Chicago, 1997).
2. See also Steven Buechler, "Beyond Resource Mobilization? Emerging Trends in Social Movement Theory," Sociological Quarterly, 34 (no. 2, 1993), 217-35;
3. Jane J. Mansbridge, "A Deliberative Theory of Interest Representation," in The Politics of Interests, ed. Mark Petracca (Boulder, 1992);
4. David A. Snow et al., "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation," American Sociological Review, 51 (Aug. 1986), 464-81;
5. Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution (Englewood Cliffs, 1978).
6. For analyses of political structures within a "new institutionalist" framework that draws on rational-choice models, see John H. Aldrich, Why Parties: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America (Chicago, 1995);
7. and Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast, "Structure-Induced Equilibrium and Legislative Choice," Public Choice, 37 (no. 3, 1981) 503-19.
8. Richard L. McCormick, "The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis," Journal of American History, 66 (Sept. 1979), 279-98;
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10. Donald J. Pisani, "Promotion and Regulation: Constitutionalism and the American Economy," Journal of American History, 74 (Dec. 1987), 740-68.
11. A recent argument for the considerable extent of regulation in the nineteenth century is William Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, 1996).
12. But, on the protection of private rights, see Andrew Rutten, "The Neglected Politics of the American Founding," Independent Review, 4 (Spring 1998), 579-95.
13. Michael Naragon, "Ballot, Bullets, and Blood: Richmond Politics, 1850-1874" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1996), esp. chaps. 5-7.
14. If parties provided neither policy direction nor direction to voters, it would be hard to understand why they prospered through the nineteenth century. On congressional behavior, see Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting (New York, 1997).
15. On the impact of the "rights revolution" on politics and the economy, see Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (New York, 1998), esp. 253-74.
16. On corporations' distrust of politicians, see Werner Troesken, Why Regulate Utilities: The New Institutional Economics and the Chicago Gas Industry, 1849-1924 (Ann Arbor, 1996);
17. and Christopher Grandy, "Can Government Be Trusted to Keep Its Part of the Social Contract? New Jersey and the Railroads, 1825-1888," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 5 (June 1989), 249-69.
18. On the origins of the welfare state, see, for example, Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (New York, 1991);
19. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, Mass., 1992);
20. Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (New York, 1994);
21. Edward D. Berkowitz, America's Welfare State from Roosevelt to Reagan (Baltimore, 1991);
22. and Joanne L. Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929 (Chicago, 1997).
23. On elites and politics, see Martin Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (New York, 1988);
24. and James Livingston, Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (Ithaca, 1986).
25. McCormick, "Party Period and Public Policy";
26. Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (New York, 1986);
27. Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (Stanford, 1991).