Electing the Senate : : Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment / / Charles Stewart, Wendy J. Schiller.
From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people-instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 line illus. 21 tables. 4 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. A Theory of Indirect Election
- Chapter 3. Candidate Emergence, Political Ambition, and Seat Value
- Chapter 4. Party as Gatekeeper: Canvass, Convention, and Caucus as Nomination Mechanisms
- Chapter 5. Political Dynamics and Senate Representation
- Chapter 6. Senate Electoral Responsiveness under Indirect and Direct Election
- Chapter 7. Myth and Reality of the Seventeenth Amendment
- References
- Index