Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Electoral Debates in the Early Republic, 1280-1292 -- 2. The Success and Failure of the Guilds in Electoral Politics, 1293-1303 -- 3. Election by Balia, 1310-1326 -- 4. The Reform of 1328: The Institution of the General Scrutiny and Sortition -- 5. The Popular Revival, 1343-1348 -- 6. The First Achievement of Stability, 1352-1377 -- 7. The Last Challenge of Corporatism, 1378-1382 -- 8. Consensus and Controls, 1382-1400 -- Epilogue: Consensus Politics and Civic Humanism -- Appendix -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-M -- N-O -- P-R -- S -- T -- U-W.