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Representative Democracy and State Building in the Progressive Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Eileen Lorenzi McDonagh
Eileen Lorenzi McDonagh
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Northeastern University, Radcliffe College
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Abstract

I draw upon state-building and legislative literatures to investigate how constituency-based representative institutions in the Progressive Era nationalized innovative public policies, thereby expanding the authority of the federal government as a component of the modern American state developing at that time. Using state-level referenda votes as measures of grassroots views, multivariate analysis discloses the impact of district opinion, as well as party and district economy, as major determinants of House roll call voting on landmark regulatory legislation authorizing federal intervention in market relationships, state suffrage qualifications, and life-style behaviors involving intoxicating beverages.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 938 - 950
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1992

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