Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The American polity and its regimes
  • The deferential-Republican regime
  • Old ways and new
  • The Republican revolution
  • From factions to parties
  • The party-Democratic regime : the Democratic polity
  • The culture of Democratic party politics
  • Governing a democratic polity
  • Crisis
  • The party-Democratic regime : the industrial polity
  • The age of the politicos
  • A state of parties and courts
  • The progressive interlude
  • The populist-bureaucratic regime
  • The rise of the populist-bureaucratic regime
  • Bureaucracy and democracy
  • Populism and party
  • Epilogue: Today and tomorrow.