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Ordinary Democratization

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  • Dawn Langan Teele

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Were women agents of their own political emancipation or did politicians preemptively grant rights to them in a bid for electoral success? This article claims that both electoral politics and the ordinary strategies of women’s movements explain the timing of female suffrage. Drawing on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, I show how in an electoral environment where the incumbent Liberals saw disadvantage to reform, an enterprising group of Liberal suffragists formed a pact with the Labour party, trading economic resources for the party’s promise to push for suffrage reform. The Election Fighting Fund, as the pact was called, was key to securing women’s place in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. In raising the possibility that ordinary instead of revolutionary tactics proved key to voting rights reform, women emerge as an interesting new case for the study of democratization.

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  • Dawn Langan Teele, 2014. "Ordinary Democratization," Politics & Society, , vol. 42(4), pages 537-561, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:42:y:2014:i:4:p:537-561
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329214547343
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