Democratic experiment: new directions in American political history / Explaining the unexplainable: the cultural context of the sedition act / Affairs of office: the executive departments, the election of 1828, and the making of the democratic party / Legal transformation of citizenship in nineteenth-century America / Bringing the constitution back in: amendment, innovation, and popular democracy during the Civil War era / Democracy in the age of capital: contesting suffrage rights in gilded age New York / Domesticity versus manhood rights: republicans, democrats, and "family values" politics, 1856-1896 / Case for courts: law and political development in progressive era / "Mirrors of desires": interest groups, elections, and the targeted style in twentieth-century America / Pocketbook politics: democracy and the market in twentieth-century America / Uneasy relationship: democracy, taxation, and state building since the New Deal / All politics is local: the persistence of localism in twentieth-century America / Suburban strategies: the volatile center in postwar American politics / From Hartz to Tocqueville: shifting the focus from liberalism to democracy in America / Possibilities of analytical political history