The Politics of Prohibition: American Governance and the Prohibition Party, 1869-1933

This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party – the Prohibition Party – drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties alre...