Wisconsin Politics and Government: America’s Laboratory of Democracy (Politics and Governments of the American States)

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Throughout the twentieth century, Wisconsin won national visibility and praise for its role as a “laboratory of democracy” within the American federal system. In Wisconsin Politics and Government James K. Conant traces the development of the state and its Progressive heritage from the early territorial experience to latest times. Conant includes a discussion of the four major periods of institutional and policy innovation that occurred in Wisconsin throughout the twentieth century in addition to an examination of the state’s constitution, legislature, place of business of the governor, courts, political parties and elections, interest groups, social welfare policy, local governments, state-local relations, and current and emerging issues.
 
Readers of Wisconsin Politics and Government are likely to find a close correspondence between Wisconsin’s social, economic, and political experience throughout the twentieth century and the essential democratic characteristics Alexis de Tocqueville describes in his classic work Democracy in America. As an example, Wisconsin’s twentieth-century civil society used to be highly developed: its elected and administrative officials frequently sought to reinforce the state’s political and administrative institutions, and they worked to give a boost to the economic and social conditions of the state’s citizens. Other brand new characteristics of the state’s democratic experience include issue-oriented politics, government institutions operating free of scandal, and citizens turning out to vote in large numbers.

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