The tribulations of an old democracy

Journal of American History

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 415-423

  Testi, Arnaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 7044270887     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2675097     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ronald Dworkin, "A Badly Flawed Election," New York Review of Books, Jan. 11, 2001, p. 53.
2. For Walt Whitman's dream of combining his democratic Utopia with the country's imperial and imperialistic drive, see Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas (1871), in The Portable Walt Whitman, ed. Mark Van Doren, rev. ed. Ma/cofm Cowley (New York, 1974), 338, 36°.
3. For the quotation at the beginning of this essay, see The Portable Walt Whitman, Ibid., 342.
4. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris, 25 Fla. L. Weekly, S 1062 (Fla. Nov. 21, 2000), 14.
5. Ferdinando Fasce, Da Georgt Washington a Bill Clinton: Due secoli diprésidents USA (From George Washing-ton to Bill Clinton: Two centuries of U.S. presidents) (Rome, 2000), 22-27;
6. Shlomo Slonim, "The Electoral College at Philadelphia: The Evolution of an Ad Hoc Congress for the Selection of a President," Journal of American History, 73 (June 1986), 35-58.
7. Arturo Zampaglione, "Schlesinger: Usciremo rafforzati dal dramma elettorale" (Schlesinger: We'll come out of the electoral drama strengthened), Repubblica (Rome), Nov. 28, 2000, p. 5;
8. see also Arthur Schlesinger, "Fixing the Electoral College," Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2000, p. A39;
9. Robert M. Hardaway, The Electoral College and the Constitution: The Case for Preserving Federalism (Westport, 1994);
10. and Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce, The Electoral College Primer 2000 (New Haven, 1999).
11. Alexis de Tocqueville quoted in Arnaldo Testi, "Questi partiti selvaggi e voraci: James Bryce, Moisei Ostrogorski, e l'immagine del partito americano" (These savage, wolfish parties: James Bryce, Moisei Ostrogorski, and the image of the American political parry), in IIpartito politico americano e I'Europa (The American political party and Europe), ed. Maurizio Vaudagna (Milan, 1991), 54;
12. James Bryce, IIpartito politico americano e I'Europa (The American political party and Europe), ibid., 67-68;
13. Max Weber, IIpartito politico americano e I'Europa (The American political party and Europe), ibid., 52;
14. Joel H. Silbey, "Beyond Realignment and Realignment Theory: American Political Eras, 1789-1989," in The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras, ed. Byron E. Shafer (Madison, 1991), 18.
15. Walter Dean Burnham, "The Turnout Problem," in Elections American Stylt, ed. A. James Reichley (Washington, 1987), 118, 127;
16. Arnaldo Testi, Trionfo e déclina delpartiti politic! negli Stati Uniti, 1860-1930 (Triumph and decline of political parties in the United States, 1860-1930) (Turin, 2000);
17. Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (New York, 1986).
18. Theodore J. Lowi, "Deregulate the Duopoly," Nation, Dec. 4, 2000 i=20001204&s=lowi>;
19. Michael Lind, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution (New York, 1995), 314-16;
20. Detroit Evening News, March 20, 1895,
21. quoted in Peter H. Argersinger, "'A Place on the Ballot': Fusion Politics and Antifusion Laws," American Historical Review, 85 (April 1980), 304.
22. Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (New York, 2000), 28, 142-43;
23. Arnaldo Testi, "The Construction and Deconstruction of the U.S. Electorate in the Age of Manhood Suffrage, 1830s-1920s," in How Did They Become Voters? The History of Franchise in Modern European Representation, ed. Raffaele Romanelli (The Hague, 1998), 390-420;
24. Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (Palo Alto, 1991);
25. Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (New York, 1986), 64.
26. Moisei Ostrogorski, Democracy and the Organization of Political Panics, trans. Frederick Clarke (2 vols., New York, 1902), II, 346.
27. James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, 3rd rev. enl. ed. (2 vols., New York, 1897), II, 145.
28. Walt Whitman, "Election Day, November, 1884," in Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ed. Jerome Loving (Oxford, Eng., 1990), 391.