How Women Represent Women : Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislat...
ISBN: 9780199845347 | 0199845344
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/9/2012
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Though the number of women elected to the U.S. state legislatures has grown substantially in the last forty years, researchers still struggle to connect women's presence in the legislature to public policy outcomes that affect women. One reason for this struggle is that we lack a complete understanding of how political parties modify the relationship between women legislators' interests in representing women and the creation of public policies affecting women. InHow Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender and Representation in the Stat... MORE
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| List of Tables | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| How Parties Affect Gender and Representation | p. 21 |
| Examining Party Identity and Institutional Partisanship | p. 52 |
| Party Identity and Issue Preferences in the 1998 Election | p. 69 |
| Party Identity and Institutional Partisanship in Agenda-Setting | p. 94 |
| Ins... MORE | p. 121 |
| Conclusion | p. 148 |
| NPAT Questionnaire and Additional NPAT Data from Chapter 4 | p. 165 |
| Coding Scheme for Bills and Roll Call Votes and Additional Analysis for Chapters 5 and 6 | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 201 |
| References | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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Tracy Osborn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa
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