Associate Professor, Political Science
rmickey@umich.eduWeiser Center for Emerging Democracies; WCED Faculty Affiliates; WCED Faculty Associates
Education/Degree:
Harvard University, Ph.D. (Political Science); Brown University, B.A. (Political Science and Philosophy)Highlighted Work and Publications
The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944-1948
Robert Mickey
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Name of Periodical: Studies in American Political Development
Volume Number: 22
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2008
Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
Robert Mickey
Robert Mickey argues that Southern states, from the 1890s until the early 1970s, constituted pockets of authoritarian rule trapped within and sustained by a federal democracy. These enclaves--devoted to cheap agricultural labor and white supremacy--were established by conservative Democrats to protect their careers and clients. From the abolition of the whites-only Democratic primary in 1944 until the national party reforms of...
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