Table of Contents

List of Tables Ch. 2 Information, Preferences, Beliefs, and Values in the Political Process Ch. 3 Building Suffrage Organizations Ch. 4 The Impact of Movement Resources on Success Ch. 5 Building Suffrage Coalitions Ch. 6 Lobbying the Government Ch. 7 Raising Suffrage Demands: Confrontation versus Compromise Ch. 8 Sources of the Movements' Information, Beliefs, and Values Ch. 9 Why Movements Succeed or Fail App. A Interview Methods App. B Measuring Suffrage Organization Membership in the United States and Switzerland App. C Data Sources for Legislative Histories and Variable Coding in Pooled-Time Series Analysis App. D Coding Confrontational and Lobbying Tactics in the United States and Switzerland Notes References Index

About the Author

Lee Ann Banaszak is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews

In this comparative analysis, Lee Ann Banaszak explores why woman suffrage came to Switzerland so much later than the United States... [She] provides a wealth of information organized by a keen analytical mind and informed by strong theoretical preferences. American Historical Review