Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Legacy of Southern Populism for Public Goods Provision

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of the United States

Brief Overview

This paper examines the roots of variation in institutional design and public goods provision among states in the US South in the early 20th century. I argue that legacies of agrarian mobilization from the 1890s help explain the divergence.

Author

• Daniel Blinderman, University of Michigan