Why America stopped voting
Subtitle: the decline of participatory democracy and the emergence of modern American politics
By: Mark Lawrence Kornbluh.
Series: The American social experience series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Voting -- United States -- History; Political participation -- United States -- History; Political parties -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Participatory mass politics. America votes : a nation of political participation; title: Party rule : the politics of mass participation; title: Electoral competition : the dynamics of the late-nineteenth-century party system; title: New politics for a changing society. America stops voting : the demobilization of the mass electorate; title: Electoral reform and the political parties : the politics of declining participation; title: Electoral politics and administrative government : the shifting locus of political decision making.