Format:
Online-Ressource (308 p.)
ISBN:
9780691026398
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Ser v.25
Content:
Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the United States and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight American states and twenty-five Swiss cantons, Lee Ann Banaszak argues that movement tactics, beliefs, and values are critical in understanding why political movements succeed or fail. The Swiss suffrage movement's beliefs in consensus poli
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400822072
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691026398
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Why Movements Succeed or Fail : Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage
Language:
English
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