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Schiffman, Kendra. "Expansion of Voting Rights for Women in the United States: Gender and Social Movement Activism within Institutional Contexts" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p22711_index.html>

Schiffman, K. S. , 2005-08-12 "Expansion of Voting Rights for Women in the United States: Gender and Social Movement Activism within Institutional Contexts" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p22711_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In contrast to other studies of the women’s suffrage movement, I argue that structural factors including democratic practices of political systems and state government formation have a central impact on the successful adoption of full women’s suffrage before 1920, which led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment. My emphasis on state governments as arenas for social movements to make demands, as critical sites for the formation of political alliances, and as institutional structures facilitating or constraining change also moves the discussion from a movement-centered perspective to a broader theoretical focus that includes the political and institutional context movements operate in, especially when making demands of state governments. Using an event history analysis, I show that institutional conditions mediate the actions of political actors in producing variable outcomes and, in the case of gender and the women’s suffrage movement, they mediate the effect of women’s economic and political progress on full suffrage adoption. Following Amenta’s institutional politics theory, and counter to the long tradition of movement scholars focusing on movement characteristics, I believe we can get even more leverage in understanding what social movements are able to accomplish by focusing on the context and political structures they face.

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