Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the prizewinning Reputation and Power and The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy. He has led the creation of the digital archive of antislavery and anti-segregation petitions and the digital archive of Native American petitions.
Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Daniel Carpenter shows, however, democracy in America emerged not merely through elections and parties, but through the trans...[SEE MORE]