Ballot Initiative Campaigns in Missouri: Reviving Progressive Era Strategies for the Twenty-First Century

• In Event: American Politics in Historical Perspective

Brief Overview

Using Missouri as a case study, this paper examines how progressive activists use ballot initiatives to advance reforms in conservative states, reframing issues like Medicaid expansion and abortion as local economic and public health priorities.

Authors

• Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia

• Robert Hadley Brehm, University of Virginia