How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women’s Enfranchisement in the United States

Teele, Dawn Langan

doi:10.1086/696621

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“…A natural extension of this inquiry would be to investigate how other social movements and institutional changes can either reinforce or erode progress made by past social movements. For example, a growing body of research in political science shows the importance of the women's suffrage movement for the organizational development and political mobilization of women in politics (Carpenter and Moore 2014;Corder and Wolbrecht 2016;McConnaughy 2013;Teele 2018). While the institutional victory of enfranchisement is of immense importance, this article suggests that there could have also been a much deeper legacy of the women's suffrage movement by fundamentally changing attitudes toward women.…”

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The Persistent Effect of U.S. Civil Rights Protests on Political Attitudes

Mazumder¹

2019

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Protests can engender significant institutional change. Can protests also continue to shape a nation's contemporary politics outside of more formalized channels? I argue that social movements can not only beget institutional change, but also long-run, attitudinal change. Using the case of the U.S. civil rights movement, I develop a theory in which protests can shift attitudes and these attitudes can persist. Data from over 150,000 survey respondents provide evidence consistent with the theory. Whites from counties that experienced historical civil rights protests are more likely to identify as Democrats and support affirmative action, and less likely to harbor racial resentment against blacks. These individual-level results are politically meaningful-counties that experienced civil rights protests are associated with greater Democratic Party vote shares even today. This study highlights how social movements can have persistent impacts on a nation's politics.

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confidence: 91%

The Persistent Effect of U.S. Civil Rights Protests on Political Attitudes

Mazumder¹

2019

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“…Heightened competition renders ruling groups vulnerable, making somewhat risky or uncertain policy reforms, like a quota law, more attractive. For instance, Teele (2018) finds that high political competition increases the probability of a state passing equal suffrage for women.…”

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Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intraparty Competition

Weeks

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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In nearly every case of quota law adoption, the support of party elites is critical. But this raises a puzzle: What can motivate predominantly male elites to put these policies in place? This article uses a comparison of two sets of matched pair countries—similar on background characteristics except for quota adoption—to explore the motivations and role of male party elites in quota reform. The cases of Belgium and Austria, and Portugal and Italy highlight two key explanations. First, quota laws are likely to be supported and passed by parties threatened by a new, more progressive competitor on the left, as a way of claiming women voters back from the encroaching party (interparty competition). Second, quotas can be employed as a mechanism for party elites to gain power over candidate selection within their own parties in the face of entrenched local party monopolies (intraparty competition).

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“…Scholars have argued that partisan mobilization is central to women's political inclusion in the early twentieth century, and they examined the conditions that promoted mobilization of women during this period. Teele (), for example, argues that heightened political competition and previous suffrage movement in U.S. western states incentivized politicians to mobilize women voters, thereby promoting women's suffrage reform in those states. Similarly, Corder and Wolbrecht () suggest that the level of political competition affected parties' strategy to mobilize new female voters after women's suffrage in the United States.…”

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Direct Democracy and Women's Political Engagement

Kim

2019

American J Political Sci

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What are the conditions that promote gender equality in political participation? In this article, I propose that the presence of direct democracy expands gender equality in political participation by signaling the system's openness to women's voice, confirming their political competency, and highlighting their stake in political decisions. To test this argument, I leverage a quasi-experiment in Sweden in the aftermath of the introduction of universal suffrage, where the type of municipal political institutions was determined by a population threshold. My findings lend strong support to the effect of direct democracy on the political inclusion of women. I find that the gender gap in electoral participation was smaller in municipalities using direct democracy than in similarly sized municipalities that only had representative institutions.

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How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women’s Enfranchisement in the United States

Cited by 71 publications

References 42 publications

The Persistent Effect of U.S. Civil Rights Protests on Political Attitudes

The Persistent Effect of U.S. Civil Rights Protests on Political Attitudes

Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intraparty Competition

Direct Democracy and Women's Political Engagement

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