Efforts to weaken the party system gained popular support for reforms including direct election of senators and primary contests as supplements to party conventions, as well as initiative, referendum, recall, and other methods of “pure” democracy. Partisan newspapers fell into disfavor, displaced by a self-consciously independent and “objective” press, and by muckraking journalists commissioned by national magazines appealing to a new urban middle class.
Joey Baker
My Tumblr is mostly just a link list of stuff I've read, or think is funny. Check out byjoeybaker.com for the good stuff. And Trunk.ly for a stream of everything I read.
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2011-12-26
