Votes Without Leverage - Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970

Klappentext This book explains why the increasing importance of women's votes throughout the 1920s did not imply increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women's organisations. Zusammenfassung This book attempts to solve an enduring puzzle in women's electoral politics. Namely why the increasing importance of women's votes in the 1920s did not imply increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women's organizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The legacy of female disenfranchisement; 2. The logic of policy change: voters! organizations! and institutions; 3. Testing competing hypotheses: pre- and post- suffrage in New York State! 1909-20; 4. The national race to mobilize women! 1917-32; 5. One step forward! two steps back: women in the parties! 1917-32; 6. The re-emergence of policy and party benefits for women! 1970-present; References.

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• Authors: Anna L. Harvey, Anna L. (City University of New York) Harvey
• Assisted by: Randall Calvert (Editor), Thrainn Eggertsson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1998
• EAN: 9780521592390
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59239-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education