Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement OutcomesDuke University Press, 2003年8月21日 - 344 頁 Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes the most effective way to achieve change. Pathways to Prohibition examines the strategic choices of social movements by focusing on the fates of two temperance campaigns. The prohibitionists of the 1880s gained limited success, while their Progressive Era counterparts achieved a remarkable—albeit temporary—accomplishment in American politics: amending the United States Constitution. Szymanski accounts for these divergent outcomes by asserting that choice of strategy (how a social movement defines and pursues its goals) is a significant element in the success or failure of social movements, underappreciated until now. Her emphasis on strategy represents a sharp departure from approaches that prioritize political opportunity as the most consequential factor in campaigns for social change. Combining historical research with the insights of social movement theory, Pathways to Prohibition shows how a locally based, moderate strategy allowed the early-twentieth-century prohibition crusade both to develop a potent grassroots component and to transcend the limited scope of local politics. Szymanski describes how the prohibition movement’s strategic shift toward moderate goals after 1900 reflected the devolution of state legislatures’ liquor licensing power to localities, the judiciary’s growing acceptance of these local licensing regimes, and a collective belief that local electorates, rather than state legislatures, were best situated to resolve controversial issues like the liquor question. "Local gradualism" is well suited to the porous, federal structure of the American state, Szymanski contends, and it has been effectively used by a number of social movements, including the civil rights movement and the Christian right. |
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... Enacted in the South during the Postbellum Period 114 5 Major State Liquor Laws Enacted in the North during the Postbellum Period 116 6 Partisan Control of Government in States and Territories Adopting Prohibition Laws , 1851-1855 128 7 ...
... Enactment of the Prohibition Movement's Most Significant Legislation , 1900-1912 147 15 Use of the Initiative and Referendum by the Prohibition Movement to Achieve Statewide Prohibition , 1898-1919 150 16 Patterns of WCTU Membership ...
... enact prohibition after 1900, five others relied on legislative acts to establish statewide prohibition dur- ing the Progressive Era.72 In addition, the drys of the latter period still managed to lose four referenda that they sponsored ...
... enact statutory pro- hibition; in ten, they successfully exploited direct legislation procedures predating 1898; 77 and in three others, they effectively combined these two approaches.78 Like- wise, local option as a dry resource was ...
... enact laws , and any attempt to transfer this authority to the people violated the principle of legislative ... enacted 1,232 special laws but only fifty - four general laws in 1872. Moreover , many of the former favored moneyed ...
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2 Churches Lodges and Dry Organizing | 23 |
3 Modular Collective Action in a Federalist System | 65 |
4 Legislative Supremacy and the Definition of Movement Goals | 89 |
5 Political Alignments Party Systems and Prohibition | 122 |
6 The Dynamics of Local Gradualism in the States | 153 |
7 Turning Moderates into Radicals | 182 |
8 Local Gradualism and American Social Movements | 198 |
Notes | 219 |
Selected Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 317 |