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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Collapse of Coalitions and Partisan Incentives. |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
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Women -- Suffrage. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: McConnaughy, Corrine M. Woman Suffrage Movement in America : A Reassessment. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9781107013667 |
| ISBN |
9781107419162 |
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1107419166 |
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9781107416444 |
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1107416442 |
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9781139005104 |
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1139005103 |
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9781107013667 |
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1107013666 |
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