Pathways to Prohibition

Strategies 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.

List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. Political Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes 1 2. Churches, Lodges, and Dry Organizing 23 3. Modular Collective Action in a Federalist System 65 4. Legislative Supremacy and the Definition of Movement Goals 89 5. Political Alignments, Party Systems, and Prohibition 122 6. The Dynamics of Local Gradualism in the States 153 7. Turning Moderates into Radicals 182 8. Local Gradualism and American Social Movements 198 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 301 Index 317