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Women and elective office : past, present, and future / edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195112318
  • 9780195112313
  • 019511230X
  • 9780195112306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.0820973
LOC classification:
  • HQ1391.U5 W63 1998
Contents:
The bottleneck: women becoming candidates / Georgia Duehrst-Lahti -- Campaign finance: women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell -- Gender, political advertising, and the "air wars" / Leonard Williams -- Voter reaction to women candidates / Elizabeth Adell Cook -- Are all women state legislators alike? / Kathleen Dolan and Lynne E. Ford -- Are women state legislators different? / John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell -- The geography of gender power: women in state legislatures / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Women at the national level: an update on roll-call voting behavior / Janet Clark -- Representing women's interests in the U.S. House of Representatives / Debra L. Dodson -- African-American women in state elective office in the South / Marsha J. Darling -- The feminization of leadership in state legislatures / Marcia Lynn Whicker and Malcolm Jewell -- Getting things done: women committee chairpersons in state legislatures / Cindy Simon Rosenthal -- In a different voice: women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene -- Into the twenty-first century: will women break the political glass ceiling / Jean Reith Schroedel and Nicola Mazumdar.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index.

The bottleneck: women becoming candidates / Georgia Duehrst-Lahti -- Campaign finance: women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell -- Gender, political advertising, and the "air wars" / Leonard Williams -- Voter reaction to women candidates / Elizabeth Adell Cook -- Are all women state legislators alike? / Kathleen Dolan and Lynne E. Ford -- Are women state legislators different? / John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell -- The geography of gender power: women in state legislatures / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Women at the national level: an update on roll-call voting behavior / Janet Clark -- Representing women's interests in the U.S. House of Representatives / Debra L. Dodson -- African-American women in state elective office in the South / Marsha J. Darling -- The feminization of leadership in state legislatures / Marcia Lynn Whicker and Malcolm Jewell -- Getting things done: women committee chairpersons in state legislatures / Cindy Simon Rosenthal -- In a different voice: women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene -- Into the twenty-first century: will women break the political glass ceiling / Jean Reith Schroedel and Nicola Mazumdar.

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