In The Making of the Populist Movement, Adam Slez provides a fresh analysis of a critical moment in American politics. Focused on South Dakota, a hotspot of populist organizing in the 1890s, Slez carefully reconstructs the development of a market for grain and a political field centered on office-holding. The result is a compelling analysis of populism as the flip side of the politics of party elites." -Elisabeth S. Clemens, author of Civic Gifts:
Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
Adam Slez is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where he joined the faculty in 2013. His previous work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Socius, and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.