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Old Times There are not Forgotten: The Legacy of Southern Populism for Public Goods Provision
Old Times There are not Forgotten: The Legacy of Southern Populism for Public Goods Provision
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105242
- ISBN
- 9798291569436
- DDC
- 973
- 서명/저자
- Old Times There are not Forgotten: The Legacy of Southern Populism for Public Goods Provision
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 259 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Mickey, Rob.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약By the 1930s, the states of the Deep South varied substantially in both their overall level and geographic distribution of important public goods. This variation is surprising given these states' similar political economies, racialized barriers to political participation, and repressive single-party politics. In this dissertation, I argue that an underappreciated historical legacy of the 1880s and 1890s contributed to this variation. During this period, Southern states experienced over two decades of multi-party competition and agrarian mobilization, with the most intensive episode channeled by the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party. Seeking to end threats to their dominance, conservative Democrats convened state constitutional conventions throughout the 1890s to disenfranchise their opponents and entrench single-party rule. They encountered varying levels of opposition to their anti-democratic project from discontented rural agrarians. Under certain circumstances, this resistance forced elite Democrats to compromise on the design of the new constitutions that became a vehicle for the founding of subnational authoritarian regimes throughout the South. I argue for increased attention to authoritarian foundings in setting the terms of political conflict and resource allocation within authoritarian states. In a study of Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, this dissertation draws on archival evidence to describe and explain the contrasting choices by state-level Farmers' Alliance organizations. I show how those decisions contributed to different outcomes: In Alabama and Louisiana, agrarian discontent helped Populists mount strong electoral challenges to their state-level Democratic Parties. In contrast, in Mississippi and South Carolina, agrarian dissent only contributed to a weak Populist challenge to the Democratic Party. I then draw on Democratic Party records and the minutes from state-level constitutional conventions to show that these challenges contributed to compromised foundings in Alabama in Louisiana that, particularly in Louisiana, forced the state's authoritarian founders to compromise on the design of each state's newly constitutionally entrenched institutions. In South Carolina and Mississippi, weaker challenges to the Democratic Party contributed to quiescent foundings which allowed conservative elites to avoid meaningful institutional concessions. I then assemble an original dataset of county-level spending on public highway construction and funding for the public schools attended by white students to show that these contrasting foundings contributed to divergent policy legacies. By the 1920s and 1930s, Alabama and Louisiana tended to have more materially responsive politics, a more generous provision of public goods, and a more equal distribution of those public goods among whites. Conversely, South Carolina and Mississippi provided fewer public goods and distributed them more unequally among the white population. In my conclusion, I extend my study via the inclusion of North Carolina, a non-Deep South state, as a shadow case. My study contributes to our understanding of the one-party South, the long-term outcomes of social movement mobilization, and the role of state constitutions in structuring public goods provision.
- 일반주제명
- American history
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- History
- 키워드
- Populism
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Political Science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
■520 ▼aBy the 1930s, the states of the Deep South varied substantially in both their overall level and geographic distribution of important public goods. This variation is surprising given these states' similar political economies, racialized barriers to political participation, and repressive single-party politics. In this dissertation, I argue that an underappreciated historical legacy of the 1880s and 1890s contributed to this variation. During this period, Southern states experienced over two decades of multi-party competition and agrarian mobilization, with the most intensive episode channeled by the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party. Seeking to end threats to their dominance, conservative Democrats convened state constitutional conventions throughout the 1890s to disenfranchise their opponents and entrench single-party rule. They encountered varying levels of opposition to their anti-democratic project from discontented rural agrarians. Under certain circumstances, this resistance forced elite Democrats to compromise on the design of the new constitutions that became a vehicle for the founding of subnational authoritarian regimes throughout the South. I argue for increased attention to authoritarian foundings in setting the terms of political conflict and resource allocation within authoritarian states. In a study of Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, this dissertation draws on archival evidence to describe and explain the contrasting choices by state-level Farmers' Alliance organizations. I show how those decisions contributed to different outcomes: In Alabama and Louisiana, agrarian discontent helped Populists mount strong electoral challenges to their state-level Democratic Parties. In contrast, in Mississippi and South Carolina, agrarian dissent only contributed to a weak Populist challenge to the Democratic Party. I then draw on Democratic Party records and the minutes from state-level constitutional conventions to show that these challenges contributed to compromised foundings in Alabama in Louisiana that, particularly in Louisiana, forced the state's authoritarian founders to compromise on the design of each state's newly constitutionally entrenched institutions. In South Carolina and Mississippi, weaker challenges to the Democratic Party contributed to quiescent foundings which allowed conservative elites to avoid meaningful institutional concessions. I then assemble an original dataset of county-level spending on public highway construction and funding for the public schools attended by white students to show that these contrasting foundings contributed to divergent policy legacies. By the 1920s and 1930s, Alabama and Louisiana tended to have more materially responsive politics, a more generous provision of public goods, and a more equal distribution of those public goods among whites. Conversely, South Carolina and Mississippi provided fewer public goods and distributed them more unequally among the white population. In my conclusion, I extend my study via the inclusion of North Carolina, a non-Deep South state, as a shadow case. My study contributes to our understanding of the one-party South, the long-term outcomes of social movement mobilization, and the role of state constitutions in structuring public goods provision.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0127.
■650 4▼aAmerican history
■650 4▼aPolitical science
■650 4▼aHistory
■653 ▼aAmerican Political Development
■653 ▼aSouthern politics
■653 ▼aAuthoritarian politics
■653 ▼aPopulism
■653 ▼aComparative historical analysis
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■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359965▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
