Book chapter
The Progressive Era Vision: Instrumental and Educative Justifications of Direct Democracy
Educated by Initiative, p.1
University of Michigan Press
11/12/2009
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11467.5
Abstract
“I tell you,” Woodrow Wilson stressed to a reporter in May 1911, “the people of this state and this country are determined at last to take over the control of their own politics.”¹ Well before his successful run for the presidency the following year, the New Jersey governor had begun broadening his appeal to a national audience, selectively employing a more populist rhetoric. An avowed progressive liberal, Wilson was a relatively late convert to the direct democracy crusade, which included the devices of initiative, referendum, and recall. A little more than a decade earlier, in 1898, the formally trained political
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Progressive Era Vision: Instrumental and Educative Justifications of Direct Democracy
- Creators
- Daniel A. SmithCaroline J. Tolbert
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Educated by Initiative, p.1
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.11467.5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/12/2009
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983989282202771
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