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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... Vote , 1848-1856 130 8 Partisan and Nonpartisan Support for Prohibition , 1869-1896 135 9 Partisan Control of State Government in the States Holding Prohibition Referenda , 1880-1890 138 11 Electoral Competitiveness in States Holding ...
... vote to perpetuate plague centers . ” 2 Indeed , the radicals often dismissed local prohibition as no better than Stephen Douglas's " squatter sovereignty . " 3 Though acknowledging that many did not share their views , the orthodox ...
... voted to enforcing extant liquor laws at the local level . Although short - lived , the Law and Order League would bequeath its law enforcement methods and , more signifi- cantly , its focus on securing modest , local goals to the Anti ...
... vote as crucial to securing woman's full opportunities to pursue happiness. In the end, such feminism appealed to a ... votes by doing so.50 Alternatively, some proponents of this theoretical framework maintain that the institutional ar ...
... voting . " 64 Re- gardless of their explanation , however , most analysts agree that those segments of society lacking in wealth , education , and power became less likely to vote than so- cial groups which possessed these attributes.65 ...
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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 |