Plebiscites since the World War

Plebiscites since the World War

In 1933, Wambaugh produced a two-volume update, Plebiscites since the World War, also accompanied by official documents but with a mass of additional material on the often fraught elections she had witnessed. She concluded her analysis with 18 specific recommendations, the last of which insisted that international plebiscites ‘must include women as well as men’. A plebiscite conducted in an area that had not been thoroughly internationalised in advance was, she argued, ‘a crime against the inhabitants as well as against political science itself’.

Sarah Wambaugh, Plebiscites since the World War. With a collection of official documents (2 vols), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; 1933), vol. I, p.2