Reconstruction As A New Regime Type: The World's First Biracial Democracy

• In Event: Policy, Violence, and Coercion in America

Brief Overview

Placing Reconstruction in the U.S. (1867-1898) in the "varieties of democracy" and the "democracy with adjectives" discussions, I show that Reconstruction can fruitfully be seen as a new regime type: the world's first biracial democracy.

Author

• Richard M Valelly, Swarthmore College