Moral Suasion and Political Action

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13044729
AutoresAdam Chamberlain (0000-0002-9928-0529, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume7
Fascículo1
Páginas57-85
Data de publicação2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Political Thought (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2161-1580 • E-ISSN: 2161-1599
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/695642
OpenAlexW2784610515
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas61

Moral suasion played an important role in the abolition and temperance movements, yet scholarship provides no guidance on how to systematically evaluate its place in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reform efforts. Here this is addressed by studying moral suasion’s use in justifying social and political actions. By using the perspectives of prominent groups and leaders in the two movements to illuminate the nonpolitical and political motivations behind moral suasion, this article displays how its application varied from an end in itself, with no political goal, to a political tool, used in various ways to justify political reforms. Overall, this article places moral suasion squarely amid these two movements, revealing its variegated use by activists and how these different uses of it reflect liberal and republican thinking in the American polity

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