The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s
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The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s
(Reconfiguring American political history)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential election. Stunned by this civic failure so soon after a world war to "make the world safe for democracy," reforming women and business men launched massive campaigns to "Get Out the Vote." By 1928, they had enlisted the enthusiastic support of more than a thousand groups in Forty-six states. In The Big Vote, historian Liette Gidlow shows that the Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns-overlooked by historians until now-were in fact part of an important transformation of political culture in the early twentieth century. Weakened political parties, ascendant consumer culture, labor unrest, Jim Crow, widespread anti-immigration sentiment, and the new woman suffrage all raised serious questions about the meanings of good citizenship.
Gidlow recasts our understandings of the significance of the woman suffrage amendment and shows that it was important not only because it enfranchised women but because it also ushered in a new era of near-universal suffrage. Faced with the apparent equality of citizens before the ballot box, middle-class and elite whites in the Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns and elsewhere advanced a searing critique of the ways that workers, ethnics, and sometimes women behaved as citizens. Through techniques ranging from civic education to modern advertising, they worked in the realm of culture to undo the equality that constitutional amendments had seemed to achieve. Through their efforts, by the late 1920s, "civic" had become practically synonymous with "middle class" and "white." Richly documented with primary sources from political parties and civic groups, popular and ethnic periodicals, and electoral returns, The Big Vote looks closely at the national Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns and at the internal dynamics of campaigns in the case-study cities of New York, New York, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Birmingham, Alabama.
In the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Dominance
1. "Civic Slackers" and "Poll Dodgers": Nonvoting and the Construction of Discursive Dominance
2. "A Whole Fleet of Campaigns": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns in Overview
3. "Vote as You Please-But Vote!": The Leadership of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns
4. "Good for at Least 100 Votes": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns at the Local Level
5. The Expert Citizen: Civic Education and the Remaking of Civic Hierarchies
6. The Methods of Wrigley and Barnum: The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns and the Commodification of Political Culture
Conclusion: The New Regime
Abbreviations
Notes
A Note on Method and Sources
Index
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