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The Southern Political Tradition

The Southern Political Tradition

Perman, Michael

Paperback

Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History

General Political ScienceRegional: South

ISBN10: 0807144681
ISBN13: 9780807144688
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Mar 12 2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive research and understanding of southern politics, Perman singles out three features of the area's political history. He calls the first element The One-Party Paradigm, a political system characterized by one-party dominance rather than competition between two or more. The second feature, The Frontier and Filibuster Defense, illustrates a dramatic, preemptive response within Congress to any threat to the region's racial order. And in the third, The Over-Representation Mechanism, Perman describes the skillful manipulation of institutional mechanisms in Congress that resulted in greater influence than the region's relatively small population warranted.

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