The Role of Political Parties in Financing the Civil War

• In Event: The Politics of the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Brief Overview

We argue that the existence of strong and stable parties in the North, and the lack thereof in the South, is also crucial to explaining disparities in Civil War financing.

Authors

• Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California

• David Martin, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• Nicholas G Napolio, University of California-Riverside