| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven L. Piott. Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2003. Pp. x, 330. $39.95.

This monograph is a useful resource for those engaged in research on Progressive-era political history, but it is not a particularly interesting book, and, in some ways, it is both an odd and an irritating one. Since this appears to damn it with less than faint praise, let me first emphasize its undeniable utility. Steven L. Piott devotes about six to seven thousand words to each of sixteen states that adopted the initiative and the referendum in the two decades after 1898. He explores how the measures came to be enacted in each state, and historians will find both his accounts of the enactment of the legislation in the various states and the sources he cites useful for their own research on direct democracy in the United States.

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