The People's Lobby

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The People's Lobby is written by Elisabeth S. Clemens and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226109925 (ISBN 10) and 9780226109923 (ISBN 13).

Clemens sheds new light on how farmers, workers, and women invented strategies to circumvent the parties. Voters learned to monitor legislative processes, to hold their representatives accountable at the polls, and to institutionalize their ongoing participation in shaping policy. Closely analyzing the organizational politics in three states -- California, Washington, and Wisconsin -- she demonstrates how the political opportunity structure of federalism allowed regional innovations to exert leverage on national political institutions.