The Big Vote : Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making Dominance -- Chapter 1: "Civic Slackers" and "Poll Dodgers": Nonvoting and the Construction of Discursive Dominance -- Chapter 2: "A Whole Fleet of Campaigns": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns in Overview -- Chapter 3: "Vote as You Please-But Vote!": The Leadership of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns -- Chapter 4: "Good for at Least 100 Votes": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Expert Citizen: Civic Education and the Remaking of Civic Hierarchies -- Chapter 6: The Methods of Wrigley and Barnum: The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns and the Commodification of Political Culture -- Conclusion: The New Regime -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- A Note on Method and Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.

In the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.

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