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In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to 13 states and two Canadian provinces, controlled North Dakota's state government, and birthed new farmer-labour alliances. Yet today it is all but forgotten, neglected even by scholars. Michael J. Lansing aims to change that. 'Insurgent Democracy' offers a new look at the Nonpartisan League and a new way to understand its rise and fall in the United States and Canada. Lansing argues that, rather than a spasm of populist rage that inevitably burned itself out, the story of the League is in fact an instructive example of how popular movements can create lasting change.

The course of events since the implementation of NAFTA has had unexpected elements with significant impacts on North American integration. First has been the rise of China as a larger source of imports and production partner than Mexico. Second has been the rise of security concerns since September 11, 2001. The result has been much stronger integration between Canada and the US than with Mexico. Migration issues are now linked with security, which has risen to a top priority in the international agenda. While liberalization has furnished strong economic incentives for integration, it has n.

One important tradition in political science conceives of the Civil War in the United States serving as the functional equivalent of the English and French Revolutions, bringing with it the victory of liberal democratic industrialism over aristocratic agriculturalism. From this perspective, the Civil War is notable for its impact on the American state. Surprisingly however, little attention has been paid to the distinguishing features of this historic rupture in American politics. Through primary source research and the re-analysis of the rich historical literature about the an.

The political rhythms of pro-free trade coalitions in North and South America seem to be out of sync. After the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed, free traders looked like they were on a roll towards expansion throughout the hemisphere. Chile was poised to follow Mexico into NAFTA. Mercosur began to take off. For much of the post-NAFTA period, however, most Latin American governments were more prepared to sign a hemispheric free-trade agreement than the United States was. NAFTA's persistent domestic political costs blocked President Clinton's effort to renew fast-track negotiating au-thority. By the time President George W. Bush scraped together a slim congressional majority to regain presidential trade-negotiating author-ity, the political winds in South America had shifted and were empow-ering skeptics in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. By early 2003 negotiations towards a Free Trade Area of the Americas had reached their late middle phase, a timely moment to review research on the political economy of North American economic integration.

1. Building without architecture : regional governance in post-NAFTA North America / Brian Bow and Greg Anderson -- 2. "Bundled transgovernmentalism" and environmental governance in North America / Debora VanNijnatten and Neil Craik -- 3. New directions in North American border security governance / Jason Ackleson and Yosef Lapid -- 4. Faraway so close : territorial security and regionalism in North America and Europe / Ruben Zaiotti -- 5. The government-designed architecture of North America's disaggregated trade and investment arbitration regimes / Stephen Clarkson -- 6. Lacking linkages : labor, civil society and sub-federal trade policy in North America / Christopher Kukucha -- 7. Security, technology and market restructuring in North America's energy industries and the demise of Mexico's state-oil-monopoly regime / Isidro Morales -- 8. "Exceptional," immovable, adaptable : congress and the limitations of North American governance / Geoffrey Hale -- 9. Polls, parties, politicization and the evolution of North American regional governance / Brian Bow and Arturo Santa Cruz -- 10. How do we get to North America? / Stephen Blank -- 11. Conclusions : without architecture, but not without structure / Greg Anderson and Brian Bow.

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