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Pathways to prohibition : radicals, moderates, and social movement outcomes

Strategies for gradually affecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. This title examines the strategic choices of social movements through a focus on the fates of the two waves of temperance campaigns.
Print Book, English, 2003
Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2003
Geschichte 1800-1920
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780822331810, 9780822331698, 0822331810, 0822331691
51810467
Political strategy and social movement outcomes
Churches, lodges, and dry organizing
Modular collective action in a Federalist system
Legislative supremacy and the definition of movement goals
Political alignments, party systems, and prohibition
The dynamics of local gradualism in the states
Turning moderates into radicals
Local gradualism and American social movements
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