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008			200220s2020 pau b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aE183 _b.C877 2020
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100	1		_aCritchlow, Donald T., _d1948-
245	1	0	_aIn defense of populism : _bprotest and American democracy / _cDonald T. Critchlow.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2020]
300			_a220 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Social Protest and Democracy -- Chapter 1. Populism: Prelude to "Big Government" -- Chapter 2. New Deal Protest and the Administrative State -- Chapter 3. How Grassroots Mobilization Changed Postwar Civil Rights -- Chapter 4. Second-Wave Feminism, Social Protest, and the Rights Revolution -- Chapter 5. The Populist Right: Anti-Statism and Anti-Elitism -- Chapter 6. Protest in a Polarized Age -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
520			_a"In Defense of Populism challenges didactic accounts of populism as either simply expressions of the oppressed demanding that the democratic dream be realized or anxiety-ridden, anti-intellectual, paranoid, anti-democratic reactions to a changing order. Instead, this book submits that grassroots activist movements-populist movements-are essential to American democracy. At decisive points in American politics, social protest movements-whether on the left or the right-force established parties and leaders to bow to reform. In this way, anti-elitist social protest becomes absorbed by established powers. At the same time, the demands for democratic reform become institutionalized in the modern American state, ironically creating an enlarged bureaucratic government that is further removed from the people. This progression from protest to political absorption to institutionalization is evidenced in critical episodes in the American reform tradition. Indeed, American history is replete with these cycles of political disequilibrium followed by stabilization. In arguing for the necessary importance of populism to political reform, this book explores specific episodes in modern American history that reveal the interplay of populist social action and party reform: agrarian populism in the late nineteenth century, anti-corporatism in the Progressive Era, class protest during the New Deal, the struggle for black equality in the early Cold War era, second-wave feminism in the 1970s, and anti-statist New Right protest in the late twentieth century. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPopulism _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial movements _zUnited States _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government.
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
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