Discontent at the Polls : A Study of Farmer and Labor Parties 1827-1948 / Susan W. Stedman, Murray S. Stedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stedman, Murray S., author.

Stedman, Susan W., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1950]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the economic, geographical, and psychological conditions which farmer and labor parties in the United states act as vehicles for the expression of political discontent and to popularize issues which the major parties at first ignored but later adopted. Specifically examines the parties, platforms, geographic patterns and economics of protest voting, strategy and tactics, legal barriers, and economic and political discontent of protest voting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Charts. Tables

Introduction

1. The Parties: a Survey

2. Platforms: the Genealogy of Ideas

3. The Record at the Polls

4. Geographic Patterns of Protest Voting in Presidential Elections

5. The Economics of Protest Voting

6. Strategy and Tactics

7. Legal Barriers

8. The Components of Protest Voting: Economic Discontent

9. The Components of Protest Voting: Political Discontent

10. Perspective

Appendix A: Voting for Head of Tickets of Farmer and Labor Parties in Presidential and State-wide Elections, 1872-1948

Appendix B: Parties and States of Farmer and Labor Party Representatives in Congress, 1860-1948

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231880909

0231880901

OCLC:

1100429099