We the People: Populism and Party Realignment in the United States

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dc.contributor.authorCouch, Tiffany
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-15T17:12:59Z
dc.date.available2018-12-15T17:12:59Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.description75 pages. Presented to the Department of Political Science and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts December 2017
dc.description.abstractPopulism is an increasingly relevant topic in the current American political sphere. From the People’s Party to George Wallace, there is plenty to be learned about this movement and its previous influences on the American political party system in order to predict what influences it could potentially have in the future. This thesis seeks to tie the occurrence of third-party populist movements with political party realignment in the United States. This is done through case study analyses of three different third-party populist movements at three times of political party realignment: the 1890s, 1930s, and 1960s-1970s. The resulting analyses show a strong link between the rise of populist third parties and populist third-party candidates with the occurrence of political party realignments. This link is further strengthened as deeper analysis shows that the political system at the time either reoriented around issues that were critical to populists and/or influenced the changing platforms of the major parties.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/23997
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectPolitical scienceen_US
dc.subjectPopulismen_US
dc.subjectParty realignmenten_US
dc.subjectU.S. politicsen_US
dc.subjectPeople's Partyen_US
dc.subjectGeorge Wallaceen_US
dc.subjectHuey Longen_US
dc.titleWe the People: Populism and Party Realignment in the United States
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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