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Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes

Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes

Szymanski, Ann-Marie E.

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822331810
ISBN13: 9780822331810
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 21 2003
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes the most effective way to achieve change. Pathways to Prohibition examines the strategic choices of social movements by focusing on the fates of two temperance campaigns. The prohibitionists of the 1880s gained limited success, while their Progressive Era counterparts achieved a remarkable--albeit temporary--accomplishment in American politics: amending the United States Constitution. Szymanski accounts for these divergent outcomes by asserting that choice of strategy (how a social movement defines and pursues its goals) is a significant element in the success or failure of social movements, underappreciated until now. Her emphasis on strategy represents a sharp departure from approaches that prioritize political opportunity as the most consequential factor in campaigns for social change.

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