Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Woman suffrage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States. BeforeWorldWar I, however …, suffrage states remained almost exclusively confined to the American West. The reasons for this pioneering role of theWest are … still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce …