Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century

by Ballard C. Campbell

The rise of an immensely powerful federal government in the twentieth century has tended to obscure the importance of state and local government in American history. Yet government at these lesser levels had the most direct and continuous effect on the lives of ordinary citizens. Through an analysis of late-nineteenth-century state legislatures in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Ballard Campbell has written what one expert has called "the best...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674732030
• ISBN13: 9780674732032
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"