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

Publication subTitle ：Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes

Author： Ann-Marie E. Szymanski

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780822385301

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822331698

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780822331810

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Prohibition -- United States -- History., Temperance -- United States -- History., Social movements -- United States -- History.

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Combining historical research with the insights of social movement theory, Pathways to Prohibition shows how a locally based, moderate strategy allowed the early-twentieth-century prohibition crusade both to develop a potent grassroots component and to transcend the limited scope of local politics. Szymanski describes how the prohibition movement’s strategic shift toward moderate goals after 1900 reflected the devolution of state legislatures’ liquor l

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Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1 Political Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes

2 Churches, Lodges, and Dry Organizing

3 Modular Collective Action in a Federalist System

4 Legislative Supremacy and the Definition of Movement Goals

5 Political Alignments, Party Systems, and Prohibition

6 The Dynamics of Local Gradualism in the States

7 Turning Moderates into Radicals

8 Local Gradualism and American Social Movements

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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