Immigrant Ethnic Composition and the Adoption of Women’s Suffrage in the United States

Ho-Po Crystal Wong (), J. R. Clark () and Joshua Hall
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Ho-Po Crystal Wong: National Tsing Hua University
J. R. Clark: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Chapter Chapter 8 in Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History, 2018, pp 167-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper seeks to understand the role played by immigrant ethnic composition in the process of women’s suffrage in the United States. Any theory of the extension of voting rights to women must explain why native men voted to extend the franchise to women. In this paper, we consider what we call the “ethnic group threat.” To the extent that native males believed that the political preferences of native women were better aligned with theirs than new (primarily male) immigrants, male voters would be willing to grant women voting rights to secure their social and political status. We use a hazard model and immigration data from 1870 to 1920 to investigate the impact of immigrant ethnic composition on women suffrage, we find that states with a higher proportion of immigrants from Italy, Eastern/Southern Europe, and Mexico gave women the the right to vote faster.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95819-4_8

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