Date of Award
2020
First Advisor
Christopher Coggins
Second Advisor
Amanda Landi
Third Advisor
Justin Jackson
Abstract
The success of the women’s suffrage movement in the United Sates, Switzerland, and around the world often was determined by political, demographic, and social factors. The factors that unambiguously were correlated across all or most data sets to lower suffrage were a bicameral legislature, a lower FLPR, a multi-party system, a high sex ratio, a strong left showing in elections, and low rates of Catholicism. Crucially, all of these factors seem to come together with other cultural phenomena and local eccentricities to strongly favor Anglo-settler-colonial frontier states or Scandinavian countries, and conspired to doom enfranchisement in Switzerland.
Recommended Citation
Shulman, Maxwell, "Women’s Suffrage in Switzerland: An International Statistical Analysis of Political, Demographic, and Societal Factors in the Fight for the Right to Vote" (2020). Senior Theses. 1452.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-theses/1452
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