中文摘要
近年来，女性获得投票权的多个百年纪念日相继到来；如今，普遍且平等的选举权已成为民主不可分割的一部分。Dawn Teele的著作《锻造选举权》探究了在英国、美国和法国，由男性选民选出的男性政治家为何赋予女性投票权。该书提出了一种解释女性投票权政治起源的理论，着重考察选举利益上的权宜考量和女性团体的动员，并提供了来自这三个国家的定量证据。该书认为，当在任者看到赋予女性投票权所能带来的选举优势，并且需要这种优势时，女性便获得了投票权。该书不仅值得那些希望更深入理解女性获得选举权的历史进程、或对民主化的政治经济学感兴趣的人关注，也值得当今每一位关心政治中性别不平等问题的人关注。（JEL D72, E16, J16, N30, N40）
Abstract
Recent years have seen several 100-year anniversaries of the women’s vote, and today universal and equal suffrage is an inseparable part of democracy. Dawn Teele’s book, Forging the Franchise, is an inquiry into the reasons why male politicians elected by male voters gave women the right to vote in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. It offers a theory of the political origins that focuses on electoral expediency and mobilization of women’s groups and it provides quantitative evidence from the three countries. It argues that women got the right to vote when the incumbents saw and needed an electoral advantage of expanding the right to vote to females. The book is of interest not only to those who want a deeper understanding of the historical process of women’s enfranchisement or who are interested in the political economy of democratization, but to everyone with a concern about gender inequality in politics today. (JEL D72, E16, J16, N30, N40)