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Dividing the Poor: Congressional Representation in Rhetoric and Policy during the New Deal

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Existing scholarship documents the low levels of political power held by the American poor, and concomitant economic elite domination of Congress. Since the poor seldom elect lawmakers that share their descriptive traits, they necessarily rely on non-poor lawmakers virtually representing their interests. A key part of this virtual representation is...

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Poverty, Public Policy, Representation, Policymaking, Congress, and American Political Development

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American history, Public policy, and Political science

Creator:

Diament, Sean Matthew

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

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2022-01-01

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Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262
"Mind How You Vote, Boys": The Crisis of Economic Voter Intimidation in the Late-Nineteenth Century United States, 1873-1896

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This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...

Keyword:

elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation

Subject:

History, American history, and Political science

Creator:

Cohn-Postar, Gideon

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978

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