| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Mark Lawrence Kornbluh. Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics. (The American Social Experience Series.) New York: New York University Press. 2000. 243 Pp. xv, 243. $40.00.

Declining voter turnout in the early twentieth century has received substantial attention from historians and political scientists. Many accounts portray the period as epochal, setting the framework that would characterize American politics over the next eighty years. Some accounts attribute the decline in turnout to relatively narrow causes such as the adoption of specific ballot, voting, or party reforms, but more suggest that the changes in politics were a part of larger transformations in the economy, society, and polity. Mark Lawrence Kornbluh joins that latter tradition. . . .

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