The Political Economy of Partisan Regimes: Lessons from Two Republican Eras

In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 595-612

Abstract

A review essay on books by (1) Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2000); (2) Scott C. James, Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2000); & (3) David R. Mayhew, Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (New Haven, CT: Yale U Press, 2002).