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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... Statewide Prohibition , 1880-1920 13 Development of the National Temperance Movement , 1815-1905 28 3 Number of Adherents , National Temperance Organizations , 1860-1920 40 4 Total Number of Temperance - Related Petitions , by Session ...
... Statewide Prohibition , 1898-1919 150 16 Patterns of WCTU Membership Growth in Pennsylvania and Illinois 166 17 Barriers to Dry Mobilization during the Progressive Era in Pennsylvania and Illinois 167 18 Barriers to Dry Mobilization ...
... statewide prohibition . Between 1882 and 1890 voters in twelve states rejected pro- hibition outright ; in four other states , constitutional prohibition won but fleeting victories . As of 1900 , Kansas , Maine , and North Dakota alone ...
... statewide prohibition , and finally an advocate of national con- stitutional prohibition . By 1919 the ASL and its allies had amassed an enormous dry army which obtained statewide prohibition in thirty states and sustained 4 Political ...
... statewide prohibition in thirty states and sustained it in three more ( Maine , Kansas , and North Dakota ) . 16 In short , the league's crowning achieve- ment — the Eighteenth Amendment — cannot be understood without appreciating 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 |