Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 0674247493, 9780674247499

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This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the

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Petitioning has a forgotten but essential role in the history of modern democracy. In the antebellum era, petitions gave

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A groundbreaking account of how prolonged grassroots mobilization lays the foundations for durable democratization When

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Expanding the discussion of the formal transition to democracy in Guatemala to focus on popular political participation

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Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music

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Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates highe

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Introduction - 4 The 'Ita Community' - context and transformations - 7 Rubber time - 10 Recent memory and gold

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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed o

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John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persua

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A comprehensive overview of the development of democracy in Portugal.

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