Why movements succeed or fail : opportunity, culture, and the struggle for woman suffrage / Lee Ann Banaszak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banaszak, Lee Ann, 1960-

Series:

Princeton studies in American politics.

Princeton studies in American politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--United States--History.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--Switzerland--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the United States and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight American states and twenty-five Swiss cantons, Lee Ann Banaszak argues that movement tactics, beliefs, and values are critical in understanding why political movements succeed or fail. The Swiss suffrage movement's beliefs in consensus politics and local autonomy and their reliance on government parties for information limited their tactical choices--often in surprising ways. In comparison, the American suffrage movement, with its alliances to the abolition, temperance, and progressive movements, overcame beliefs in local autonomy and engaged in a wider array of confrontational tactics in the struggle for the vote. Drawing on interviews with sixty Swiss suffrage activists, detailed legislative histories, census materials, and original archival materials from both countries, Banaszak blends qualitative historical inquiry with informative statistical analyses of state and cantonal level data. The book expands our understanding of the role of political opportunities and how they interact with the beliefs and values of movements and the societies they seek to change.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

TABLES

FIGURES

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER ONE. Comparing the U.S. and Swiss Woman Suffrage Movements

CHAPTER TWO. Information, Preferences, Beliefs, and Values in the Political Process

CHAPTER THREE. Building Suffrage Organizations

CHAPTER FOUR. The Impact of Movement Resources on Success

CHAPTER FIVE. Building Suffrage Coalitions

CHAPTER SIX. Lobbying the Government

CHAPTER SEVEN. Raising Suffrage Demands: Confrontation versus Compromise

CHAPTER EIGHT. Sources of the Movements' Information, Beliefs, and Values

CHAPTER NINE. Why Movements Succeed or Fail

APPENDIX A. Interview Methods

APPENDIX B. Measuring Suffrage Organization Membership in the United States and Switzerland

APPENDIX C. Data Sources for Legislative Histories and Variable Coding in Pooled-Time Series Analysis

APPENDIX D. Coding Confrontational and Lobbying Tactics in the United States and Switzerland

Notes

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index.

ISBN:

9786612753107

9781282753105

128275310X

9781400822072

1400822076

9781400810888

1400810884

OCLC:

700688404