The Woman Suffrage Movement in America : a reassessment.
This book tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country.
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Woman Suffrage
- What We Know So Far; Suffrage through a Partisan Politics Lens: The Argument in Brief; Key Insights and Predictions for the Case of Woman Suffrage; Evaluating the Theory: A Mixed-Methods Approach; What Is to Come; 1 Bringing Politics Back In; The Journey from Propertied White Males
- A Brief Overview of U.S. Suffrage History; Suffrage Supply and Demand
- Existing Accounts of Suffrage Changes.
- The Supply-Side Politics of Extending the Franchise
- Incentives and ConstraintsModels of Suffrage Extension
- Strategic and Programmatic Enfranchisement; Strategic Enfranchisement; Programmatic Enfranchisement; Seeing the Role of Demand Inside the Partisan Story
- Identities and Activism; Political Identities as Information and Constraints; Strategic Enfranchisement
- Signaling Voting Bloc Potential; Programmatic Enfranchisement
- Recognizing, Attracting, Maintaining, and Leveraging Coalitional Partnerships; Lingering Alternative Accounts; Assessing the Theory
- The Case of Woman Suffrage.
- 2 Political Meaning for Woman SuffrageLearning from Success
- Colorado and the Meaning of Woman Suffrage; Principled and Personal Failures
- Woman Suffrage Outside Party Politics; Personal Politics, Issue Definition, and Expanding the Scope of Conflict; Mistaken Opportunity
- Failure in Convention; The Referendum Campaign; Learning Coalitional Politics; The Meaning of Success
- The Suffrage Campaign of 1893; Woman Suffrage on the Populist Agenda; Translating Campaign Rhetoric into Legislative Outcomes; Delivering Votes for Women at the Polls.
- Spreading Understanding of Woman Suffrage
- Feedback to Partisans in Other StatesConclusion; 3 Programmatic Enfranchisement; Considering Political Meaning- Early Discussions of Woman Suffrage; Lessons to be Learned: Personal, Coalitional, and Strategic Failures; Inside Victory, Outside Failure; Ineffective Alliance- Suffrage and Temperance; Strategic Failure and Coalitional Beginnings; Working Through Coalitional Challenges; Mistaken Opportunity- The Politics of Convention; Navigating Coalitions and Compromise.
- Finding the Key Constituency- Leveraging the Political Power of the Michigan GrangeMuted Message- Initial Grange Support in 1911; A Programmatic Push- Granger-Led Reconsideration in 1912; Coalitions and the Public Vote; The Politics of Referendum Resubmission
- Partisan Pressures on Elite Support, Waning Public Interest; Final Victory- Friends Retained, Enemies Eliminated; Conclusion- Lessons Learned; 4 Strong Leverage; Familiar Refrains
- Women's Voting Rights Outside Partisan Incentives; Leveraging Success
- The Farmer's Alliance and School Suffrage.