{"product_id":"pathways-to-prohibition-9780822331698","title":"Pathways to Prohibition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrategies for gradually affecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. This title examines the strategic choices of social movements through a focus on the fates of the two waves of temperance campaigns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePathways to Prohibition\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully employs case materials from the temperance movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to frame and answer a critical question for social movement theory and research: what accounts for the success or failure of social movements? I believe it will make an important contribution to the field.”—Mark Wolfson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fight against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State, and the Public’s Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Pathways to Prohibition\u003c\/i\u003e effectively argues a distinctive claim: moderation is (sometimes) the path to success. This important claim contradicts the value hierarchy in which more radical forms of action are assumed to be morally superior and more effective. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski directs attention to a host of more moderate forms of mobilization in American political history that have been dismissed as irrevocably compromised.\"—Elisabeth Clemens, author of \u003ci\u003eThe People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e 1. Political Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Churches, Lodges, and Dry Organizing 23\u003cbr\u003e 3. Modular Collective Action in a Federalist System 65\u003cbr\u003e 4. Legislative Supremacy and the Definition of Movement Goals 89\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political Alignments, Party Systems, and Prohibition 122\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Dynamics of Local Gradualism in the States 153\u003cbr\u003e 7. Turning Moderates into Radicals 182\u003cbr\u003e 8. Local Gradualism and American Social Movements 198\u003cbr\u003e Notes 219\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 301\u003cbr\u003e Index 317","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038662164823,"sku":"9780822331698","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822331698.jpg?v=1750940967","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pathways-to-prohibition-9780822331698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}