Title Why Movements Succeed or Fail : Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.

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Summary	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 polit.
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Subject	Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
	Women -- Suffrage.
	United States.
	History.
	Women -- Suffrage -- Switzerland -- History.
	Switzerland.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Banaszak, Lee Ann. Why Movements Succeed or Fail : Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691026398
ISBN	9781400822072 (electronic book)
	1400822076 (electronic book)
	128275310X
	9781282753105