Organizing Democracy

1. Introduction: Perspectives on Political Organizing
Maartje Janse, Henk te Velde

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

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

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

5. Law and Voluntary Association in the Early United States
Kevin Butterfield

6. Organizing in a Moment of Madness: Political Meetings and Clubs in 1848
Geerten Waling

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
Gita Deneckere

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

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

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

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

12. Party Versus Party: Beatrice Webb and the Ascent of the British Labour Party
Hanneke Hoekstra

13. The Domestication of a Machine. The Debate About Political Parties Around 1900
Henk te Velde

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Modern Europe, US History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History