The Democratic Evolution: From Slavery to Equality, 1828-2020
By : Kenneth Janda
Release date: Nov 2022
Columbia University Press
The Democratic Evolution: From Slavery to Equality, 1828-2020 is freely available as a 173-page PDF at .
Based on 3,392 planks culled from all existing 45 Democratic Party platforms since 1840, it documents the party鈥檚 evolution from slavery to equality over three eras:
- extolling States' Rights from 1828 to 1896,
- practicing Cooperative Federalism from 1900 to1948, and
- embracing National Authority since 1952.
About the Author
Kenneth Janda is Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the textbook The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics (fifteenth edition, 2021), and he was coeditor of the journal Party Politics for two decades. Janda received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on political parties and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the discipline, both from the American Political Science Association.
