Women's Suffrage

Causes and Consequences

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12463516
AutoresDawn Langan Teele (0000-0003-3079-3083, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; email: [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas477-497
Data de publicação2025-06-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
EditoraAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-polisci-033123-125642
OpenAlexW4411360157
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas58

From 2000 to 2020, more than 20 countries marked a century of women's suffrage. These anniversaries occurred alongside a period of rich theoretical innovation in the democratization literature, producing a decade of research on the causes and consequences of women's suffrage. This body of research pushes against the narrative that suffrage happened automatically with modernization and the claims that early women voters were apathetic and conservative and did not get what they wanted out of politics. New scholarship reveals how political competition and suffragists’ strategies were key components of suffrage reform and how women, who often cast the largest number of votes in any given context, could shift the balance toward left parties if they were highly mobilized in cities. Finally, a growing body of scholarship has shown how suffrage led to expansions of early welfare state policies. Future work should examine these dynamics in suffrage's second wave and outside of the global North

Demographic economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law