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The Making of the Populist Movement - State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Populist Movement - State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier (Hardcover)
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When it comes to explaining the origins of electoral populism in
the United States, we often look to the characteristics and
conditions of voters, overlooking the reasons why populist
candidates emerge in the first place. In The Making of the Populist
Movement, Adam Slez argues that the rise of electoral populism in
the American West was a strategic response to a political
environment in which the configuration of positions was literally
locked in place, precluding the success of new contenders or
otherwise marginal competitors. Combining traditional forms of
historical inquiry with innovations in network analysis and spatial
statistics, he shows how the expansion of state and market drove
the push for market regulation in southern Dakota, where an
insurgent farmers' movement looked to third-party alternatives as a
means of affecting change. In the context of western settlement,
the struggle for political power was synonymous with the struggle
for position in an emerging urban hierarchy. As inequities in the
spatial distribution of resources became more pronounced, appeals
to agrarian populism became a powerful political tool with which to
wage partisan war. Offering a fresh take on the origins of
electoral populism in the United States, The Making of the Populist
Movement contributes to our understanding of political action by
explicitly linking the evolution of the political field to the
transformation of physical space through concerted action on the
part of elites.
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