When Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision. One House examines the forces at work behind the unicameral's creation and chronicles the lawmakers' struggles to remain true to the populist, progressive vision of its founders and the people of Nebraska.
Charlyne Berens is an associate dean and a professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. She is the author of Power to the People: Social Choice and the Populist/Progressive Ideal and Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward (available in a Bison Books edition).
