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

"Pathways to Prohibition develops an interesting and convincing analysis that any student of movements and American political history would find useful to explore."—Kent Reading, Mobilization

"In an era when structuralist models still largely dominate social movement theories, Szymanski's study of the role of political strategies in determining outcomes of social movements is especially interesting and valuable. . . . [T]his is a well-written and very insightful book. It is not only a valuable addition to the study of temperance movements, but also an important contribution to the expanding literature of American political development and the study of social movements."—Xi Chen, American Journal of Sociology

"Outstanding research and superior conceptualization of variables mark this unusually specific study of group and movements success in the attainment of tangible public policy goals. . . . Highly recommended."—W.P. Brown, CHOICE

"[T]his book has much to recommend it. Pathways to Prohibition is a fresh look at the Temperance Movement and brings to light key factors that influenced the outcome of the cause. It offers much to those interested specifically in the anti-liquor cause as well as those who study the dynamics of social movements."—Robert Allen Goldberg, Contemporary Sociology

"[The book's] theoretical and interdisciplinary approach, coupled with Szymanski's thoughtful theoretical summary and application, helpful to even the most inexperienced social theorist. In the end, the anti-liquor movement, as Szymanski convincingly presents, offers a valuable lens into the shape and character of American reform and her conclusions force us to rethink paradigms of radicalism within social movements."—Jeffery A. Johnson, American Studies International

"[A] rigorously analytical survey of national Prohibition's strategic and tactical origins."—Ian Tyrell, Journal of American History

"Drawing extensively on the vast array of primary sources, and integrating much from the extensive secondary literature, Szymanski compares the relative successes of the prohibition movement in two periods. . . . Szymanski's work melds the insights of scholars who explained the successes of social movements by their internal dynamics and those who explained them by the external factors of political environments."—Richard F. Hamm, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Pathways to Prohibition addresses an important problem: why the prohibitionists attracted widespread support in the statewide referenda of the Progressive Era. . . . Prohibition in the United States was a densely woven fabric, and Anne-Marie Szymanski deserves a toast with something stronger than cold water for her proficient tracing of one of its prominent, but previously overlooked, threads."—Jack S. Blocker, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

"[S]ophisticated and meticulous. . . . [A]n innovative and well-researched exploration of the political dimension of the Anti-Saloon League campaign, brimming with information."—Madelon Powers, American Historical Review

"Pathways to Prohibition develops an interesting and convincing analysis that any student of movements and American political history would find useful to explore."—Kent Reading, Mobilization

"In an era when structuralist models still largely dominate social movement theories, Szymanski's study of the role of political strategies in determining outcomes of social movements is especially interesting and valuable. . . . [T]his is a well-written and very insightful book. It is not only a valuable addition to the study of temperance movements, but also an important contribution to the expanding literature of American political development and the study of social movements."—Xi Chen, American Journal of Sociology

"Outstanding research and superior conceptualization of variables mark this unusually specific study of group and movements success in the attainment of tangible public policy goals. . . . Highly recommended."—W.P. Brown, CHOICE

"[T]his book has much to recommend it. Pathways to Prohibition is a fresh look at the Temperance Movement and brings to light key factors that influenced the outcome of the cause. It offers much to those interested specifically in the anti-liquor cause as well as those who study the dynamics of social movements."—Robert Allen Goldberg, Contemporary Sociology

"[The book's] theoretical and interdisciplinary approach, coupled with Szymanski's thoughtful theoretical summary and application, helpful to even the most inexperienced social theorist. In the end, the anti-liquor movement, as Szymanski convincingly presents, offers a valuable lens into the shape and character of American reform and her conclusions force us to rethink paradigms of radicalism within social movements."—Jeffery A. Johnson, American Studies International

"[A] rigorously analytical survey of national Prohibition's strategic and tactical origins."—Ian Tyrell, Journal of American History

"Drawing extensively on the vast array of primary sources, and integrating much from the extensive secondary literature, Szymanski compares the relative successes of the prohibition movement in two periods. . . . Szymanski's work melds the insights of scholars who explained the successes of social movements by their internal dynamics and those who explained them by the external factors of political environments."—Richard F. Hamm, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Pathways to Prohibition addresses an important problem: why the prohibitionists attracted widespread support in the statewide referenda of the Progressive Era. . . . Prohibition in the United States was a densely woven fabric, and Anne-Marie Szymanski deserves a toast with something stronger than cold water for her proficient tracing of one of its prominent, but previously overlooked, threads."—Jack S. Blocker, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

"[S]ophisticated and meticulous. . . . [A]n innovative and well-researched exploration of the political dimension of the Anti-Saloon League campaign, brimming with information."—Madelon Powers, American Historical Review

"Pathways to Prohibition 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 The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925

“Pathways to Prohibition 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 The Fight against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State, and the Public’s Health

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