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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... groups had lost touch with the gritty reality of local liquor control . As L. Edwin Dudley recalled , “ In one temperance society to which I belonged I asked the question one evening of the presiding officer : ' Will you tell me , sir ...
... groups, devise an effective repertoire of collective action for confronting political élites, pur- sue narrow goals, and articulate an ideology with widespread appeal. In contrast, social scientists who have concentrated on external ...
... group's capacity to mobilize support with its command of financial resources, 21 access to a pool of movement professionals, 22 and ability to recruit from existing solidarity groups.23 Such assets, they argue, help the challenging group ...
... groups which pursue narrow goals are more likely to succeed than groups with broader aims.36 In his study of fifty - three social movement orga- nizations , Gamson measured the magnitude of movement goals on three fronts : 1. Did the group ...
... group intend to influence élites or to replace élites? He found that groups with single-issue demands were more successful than those having multiple-issue demands, and that groups which tried to displace an estab- lished member of the ...
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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 |