Failed Populism: Movement-Party Disjuncture in North Carolina, 1890 to 1900
作者研究了19世纪末美国北卡罗来纳州民粹主义运动中社会运动与政党的关系。通过分析县级层面的农民联盟成员数据和人民党投票数据，作者检验了这两个组织的社会结构基础，并衡量了它们之间的关系。结果发现联盟成员与人民党支持之间存在显著脱节，这为民粹主义的失败提供了新的解释。研究还揭示了运动与政党在组织和动员过程中的差异，有助于理解民粹主义及其他反叛政治运动。
I examine the relationship between social movements and political parties through the study of late-nineteenth-centuiy Populism in North Carolina. I use county-level data on North Carolina Farmers' Alliance membership and People's Party votes to test theories on the social-structural bases of the two organizations and gauge the relationship between them. The results indicate a striking disjuncture between Alliance membership and People's Party support and suggest a new interpretation of the defeat of Populism. The results also provide the basis for analysis of the different organizational and mobilizational processes of movements and parties. Additional study of movement-party relationships should improve our understanding of Populism and other insurgent political movements as well.