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The 11 essays in this collection, written primarily by academic political scientists, emerge from a research project sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University. The individual pieces, selected by Carroll, a senior research associate at CAWP, examine the roles of women as state legislators, mayors, political appointees, and judges and look at the impact of both political context and self-conscious feminist identity on their performance. The research demonstrates that women in public office do take a more active role in fostering measures to further women's interests and that feminist public officials especially African American women are most likely to undertake action on behalf of women and minorities. However, hostile environments and a paucity of female colleagues can inhibit this impulse. Rare for a collection of this kind, the articles are uniformly strong well written, well organized, and accessible even to high school students, who can easily skip the more abstruse methodological sections. Recommended for all academic and most public libraries. Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In recent years the numbers of women serving in public offices at various levels of government have increased markedly. Is the increasing presence of women in public office making a difference? Are women public officials having a distinctive impact on public policy and the political process? These questions are central to the studies in The Impact of Women in Public Office. The research presented here offers compelling evidence that women public officials do have a gender-related impact on public policy and the political process.
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The 11 essays in this collection, written primarily by academic political scientists, emerge from a research project sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University. The individual pieces, selected by Carroll, a senior research associate at CAWP, examine the roles of women as state legislators, mayors, political appointees, and judges and look at the impact of both political context and self-conscious feminist identity on their performance. The research demonstrates that women in public office do take a more active role in fostering measures to further women's interests and that feminist public officials especially African American women are most likely to undertake action on behalf of women and minorities. However, hostile environments and a paucity of female colleagues can inhibit this impulse. Rare for a collection of this kind, the articles are uniformly strong well written, well organized, and accessible even to high school students, who can easily skip the more abstruse methodological sections. Recommended for all academic and most public libraries. Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In recent years the numbers of women serving in public offices at various levels of government have increased markedly. Is the increasing presence of women in public office making a difference? Are women public officials having a distinctive impact on public policy and the political process? These questions are central to the studies in The Impact of Women in Public Office. The research presented here offers compelling evidence that women public officials do have a gender-related impact on public policy and the political process.
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Over the past three decades more and more women have won election to public office and obtained high-level appointive positions in government. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women state senators, women state representatives, black women legislators, women public officials, taut correlation, judicial role orientation, feminist policy goals, one councilwoman, women state legislators, women officeholders, women legislate, male mayors, attitudinal support, female elected officials, female officeholders, reshaping the agenda, woman plaintiff, priority bills, substantive representation, benefiting women, women judges, minority legislators, feminist policies, elected women, feminist men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Margaret Smith, New Brunswick, Women Men, Smith Papers, Defense Department, Margaret Chase Smith, State Department, Western Political Quarterly, African American, Oxford University Press, Republican Party, Department of Defense, North Carolina, Beverly Hills, American Political Science Association, Department of State, South Dakota, Susan Gluck, Harvard University Press, Sue Thomas, American Politics Quarterly, Ann Arbor, Clyde Smith New!
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Over the past three decades more and more women have won election to public office and obtained high-level appointive positions in government. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women state senators, women state representatives, black women legislators, women public officials, taut correlation, judicial role orientation, feminist policy goals, one councilwoman, women state legislators, women officeholders, women legislate, male mayors, attitudinal support, female elected officials, female officeholders, reshaping the agenda, woman plaintiff, priority bills, substantive representation, benefiting women, women judges, minority legislators, feminist policies, elected women, feminist men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Margaret Smith, New Brunswick, Women Men, Smith Papers, Defense Department, Margaret Chase Smith, State Department, Western Political Quarterly, African American, Oxford University Press, Republican Party, Department of Defense, North Carolina, Beverly Hills, American Political Science Association, Department of State, South Dakota, Susan Gluck, Harvard University Press, Sue Thomas, American Politics Quarterly, Ann Arbor, Clyde Smith New!
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- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on 5 pages
- Women as Candidates in American Politics by Susan J. Carroll on 4 pages
- Political Woman by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick on 4 pages
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- Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Gender and Politics Series) by Susan J. Carroll on 5 pages
- Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (UN Millennium Project) by Caren Grown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Voting For Women: How The Public Evaluates Women Candidates (Dilemmas in American Politics) by Kathy Dolan on page 85, and Back Matter
- Gender and Social Capital (Gender Politics--Global Issues) by Brenda O'Neill on page 376, and Back Matter
- Women, Media and Politics by Pippa Norris in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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