A01=Michael J. Lansing
activism
Author_Michael J. Lansing
canada
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citizenship
control
corporate influence
democracy
electorate
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farmers
government
history
inequality
inequity
insurgency
lobbyists
nonfiction
nonpartisan league
north dakota
political science
politics
populism
poverty
power
reform
resistance
social movements
special interest groups
transnational
united states
voters
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- ISBN 9780226283500
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen states and two Canadian provinces, controlled North Dakota's state government, and birthed new farmer-labor alliances. Yet today it is all but forgotten, neglected even by scholars. Michael J. Lansing aims to change that. Insurgent Democracy offers a new look at the Nonpartisan League and a new way to understand its rise and fall in the United States and Canada. Lansing argues that, rather than a spasm of populist rage that inevitably burned itself out, the story of the League is in fact an instructive example of how popular movements can create lasting change. Depicting the League as a transnational response to economic inequity, Lansing not only resurrects its story of citizen activism, but also allows us to see its potential to inform contemporary movements.
Michael J. Lansing is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
