Organizing Democracy

Chapter 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Political Organizing

Chapter 2 ‘Association Is a Mighty Engine’: Mass Organization and the Machine Metaphor, 1825–1840

Chapter 3 ‘Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!: Petitioning and Political Organization in Britain, c. 1800–1850’

Chapter 4 Can ‘The People’ Speak? Popular Meetings and the Ambiguities of Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816–1828

Chapter 5 Law and Voluntary Association in the Early United States

Chapter 6 Organizing in a Moment of Madness: Political Meetings and Clubs in 1848

Chapter 7 The Democratic Framing of Protest in the Age of Revolution: The Language of Civil Rights and the Organization of Petitions and Demonstrations in Belgium, 1830–1848

Chapter 8 Brilliant Failure: Political Parties Under the Republican Era in France (1870–1914)

Chapter 9 The German National Association 1859–1867: Rise and Fall of a Proto-Party

Chapter 10 Manipulation or Participation? Membership Inclusion in the Party Organizations of the German Social Democratic Workers’ Party and the British National Liberal Federation

Chapter 11 Agitate, Educate, and Organize: Radical Networks in New York in the Early 1880s

Chapter 12 Party Versus Party: Beatrice Webb and the Ascent of the British Labour Party

Chapter 13 The Domestication of a Machine. The Debate About Political Parties Around 1900