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Paths out of Dixie: The decay of authoritarian enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944--1972.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Paths out of Dixie: The decay of authoritarian enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944--1972.
Author:	Mickey, Robert Waite.
Description:	522 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Theda Skocpol.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4170.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194436
ISBN:	9780542392375

Paths out of Dixie: The decay of authoritarian enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944--1972.
Mickey, Robert Waite.

Paths out of Dixie: The decay of authoritarian enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944--1972. - 522 p.

Adviser: Theda Skocpol.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

The study closes with an account of how these various paths out of Dixie have continued to shape these states' partisan change and socioeconomic development. The dissertation reorients the study of America's belated democratization and points to fruitful comparisons of the recent past of the American South with contemporary Latin America.

ISBN: 9780542392375Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Paths out of Dixie: The decay of authoritarian enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944--1972.
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