| Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920 1970 Contributor(s): Harvey, Anna L. (Author), Calvert, Randall (Editor), Eggertsson, Thrainn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521597439 ISBN-13: 9780521597432 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: This book explores why the increasing importance of women's votes in the 1920s did NOT lead to increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women's organizations and shows that electoral dynamics were responsible for the decline in the political influence of women's organizations by the mid-1920s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 324.623 |
| LCCN: 97041730 |
| Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.92" W x 8.85" (0.82 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using recent theoretical developments in the political economy of institutions and electoral behavior, 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. The book argues that women's exclusion from the suffrage created terms that led to distinctive patterns of post-suffrage female electoral politics. These electoral dynamics in turn are responsible for the decline in the political influence of women's organizations by the mid-1920s. |
