Women & the Vote.
In: Daedalus, Jg. 149 (2020), Heft 1, S. 25-39
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There are four contexts in which women have won voting rights: as part of a universal reform for all citizens (15 percent of countries that granted women suffrage); imposed by a conqueror or colonial metropole (28 percent); gradually, after some men had been enfranchised (44 percent); or a hybrid category, often in the wake of re-democratization (14 percent). This essay outlines the global patterns of these reforms and argues that in a plurality of cases, where women's suffrage was gradual, enfranchisement depended on an electoral logic. Politicians subject to competition who believed women would, on average, support their party, supported reform. The suffrage movement provided information, and a potential mobilization apparatus, for politicians to draw on after the vote was extended. Together, both activism and electoral incentives were imperative for reform, providing important lessons for feminist mobilization today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Women & the Vote.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Teele, Dawn Langan |
Zeitschrift: | Daedalus, Jg. 149 (2020), Heft 1, S. 25-39 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2020 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0011-5266 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1162/daed_a_01771 |
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