| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the AHR online. About 130 words from this article are provided below; about 590 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the American Historical Association, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time. AHA members can go to the AHA individual membership section to locate their member numbers.
If you are not a member of the American Historical Association, you can:: • Join the AHA and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the American Historical Review.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the American Historical Review (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the American Historical Review.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Canada and the United States

Richard Franklin Bensel. The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 302. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.00.

Recent explorations of "cultural politics" aside, the study of nineteenth-century U.S. politics generally remains closely tied to the functionalist theoretical models and rational choice assumptions of post-World War II social science. Of course nineteenth-century voters carefully weighed the competing platforms put forth by the parties and voted according to their own policy preferences. Naturally the policies that nineteenth-century legislatures enacted reflected the will of the people—or at least the will of the majority. These scholarly commonplaces require amendment, and perhaps even wholesale overhaul, argues Richard Franklin Bensel in this original analysis of the mid-nineteenth-century polling place.

. . .

There are about 590 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.