"Out of the Parlors and into the Streets": The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women' Suffrage Movements

McCammon, Holly J.

doi:10.1353/sof.2003.0037

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“…In the qualitative literature on women's status, there are many case studies of women's rights domestic and international NGOs having an influence on women's rights in certain situations. Importantly, all of these case studies outline very well-established and "forceful" women's rights groups as the key catalyst for improvement in women's rights (McCammon 2003). For example, Afsharipour (1999) reports on how the strength and sheer numbers of women's groups in Bangladesh have helped insure that international law is effective in improving women's rights conditions.…”

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“…The historical record of WROs, even going back to women's suffrage movements in the United States, is filled with examples of similar critical public behavior of women's groups (McCammon 2003). Recently, many WROs have even supported the bold "shock" tactics of the punk-band Pussy Riot in their push to advance women's social status and overall human rights conditions in Russia (HRW 2013).…”

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Women’s rights INGO shaming and the government respect for women’s rights

Murdie

Peksen

2014

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How effective are women's rights international non-governmental organizations (WROs) in improving government respect for women's rights? In this paper, we argue that WROs can be powerful actors in advancing women's status, especially when they adopt a specific advocacy strategy: "naming and shaming" of governments or non-governmental agents. We assert that a targeted "naming and shaming" publicity strategy is necessary to exert pressure on the government to enforce women's internationally recognized rights. Using a new dataset on the advocacy activities of over 1,595 WROs, we test the implications of our argument in a global statistical model from 1991 to 2005. The results indicate that WRO shaming is likely to improve women's economic and social rights while having no discernible impact on women's political rights. We also find that the mere presence of WROs is unlikely to have a significant impact on women's rights. One major implication of the findings is that any significant improvement in respect for women's rights partly requires a strong voice in advocacy. The findings also suggest that governments that face pressure from advocacy groups are more inclined to promote and enforce only the rights that do not threaten their own political power and status, such as women's social and economic rights.

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Women’s rights INGO shaming and the government respect for women’s rights

Murdie

Peksen

2014

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“…In their argument movements were akin to industries, consisting of social movement organizations that competed for resources and developed strategies that optimized their chances for survival. This new strand of research drew extensively from the past generation of organizational scholarship, examining the formal and informal features of social movement organizations as well as their strategies and tactical repertoires (e.g., Morris 1984;Zald 1987;Minkoff 1994;1997;Staggenborg 1996;McCammon 2003;Taylor and Van Dyke 2004).…”

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The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

Adler¹,

Morgan²,

Reed

2014

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“…Significant social changes are highly context-specific and they emerge and develop over time, with many also being long-term endeavours. Historical examples of social change include the Victorian public health movement (Szreter, 1988), the abolition of slavery (D'Anjou & Van Male, 1998), the US civil-rights movement (Schama, 2009), and the suffragette movement (Keck & Sikkink, 2000;McCammon, 2003). Some publicly funded initiatives seek to unleash the power of social change to tackle complex social problems which include family violence, attitudes to parenting, and how we think about mental illness and disability (Gravitas Research and Strategy, 2005;Point Research, 2010;Vaughan & Hansen, 2004).…”

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Accountability and development? Supporting provider-led evaluation of short-term community social-change projects

Appleton-Dyer¹,

Field²

2017

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Evaluating the outcomes of social-change initiatives is often conceptualised as a long-term endeavour, where the impacts take some years to assess. This is feasible for large-scale, multiyear initiatives, but challenging for relatively small-scale, community-based projects with short-term funding cycles. This article discusses the evaluation techniques developed to work with a range of short-term community projects funded through two national social-change campaigns to address bullying, and the exclusion of disabled people, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing primarily on developmental evaluation and supported by results-based accountability (RBA), the evaluators provided evaluation support and capability building to community projects to support their development journeys and accountability requirements. We draw on our reflections and learning to identify the value of this approach, as well as the challenges and tensions that emerged from integrating developmental evaluation and RBA. Implications for practice are highlighted through these discussions. Accountability and development? Supporting provider-led evaluation of short-term community social-change projects

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"Out of the Parlors and into the Streets": The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women' Suffrage Movements

Cited by 100 publications

References 63 publications

Women’s rights INGO shaming and the government respect for women’s rights

Women’s rights INGO shaming and the government respect for women’s rights

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

Accountability and development? Supporting provider-led evaluation of short-term community social-change projects

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