Status Politics and Economic Class Interests

The 1918 Prohibition Referendum in California

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2276558
AutoresIra Wasserman (0000-0001-6618-6096, Eastern Michigan University, autor de correspondencia), Ira M Wasserman (Eastern Michigan University)
Año1990
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas475-484
Fecha de publicación1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.1990.tb00340.x
OpenAlexW2162070583
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas22

The status politics paradigm has been utilized to examine many social movements, including prohibition and anti-pornography. The model assumes that economic and non-economic factors can be disassociated in such studies. This article disputes this and examines county-level 1918 prohibition referendum voting data from California. California is examined because it had a large wine industry, many breweries, and regionally separated religious and ethnic communities, with Germans and ethnic Catholics in the North and white Anglo-Saxon Protestants in the South. Multivariate analysis shows that status factors influenced referendum voting patterns: evangelical Protestants supported the measure, and ethnic Germans and Irish opposed it. However, economic forces were also instrumental in determining the referendum outcome

Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Voting · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Wine Industry and Tourism