Book
How women represent women: political parties, gender, and representation in the state legislatures
Oxford University Press
2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.001.0001
Abstract
This title argues that political parties fundamentally structure the ways in which women legislators represent women's interests. Using original election, sponsorship and roll call data across the US state chambers, Osborn shows how parties shape the policy alternatives women offer.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How women represent women: political parties, gender, and representation in the state legislatures
- Creators
- Tracy L. Osborn
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- Introduction -- How parties affect gender and representation -- Examining party identity and institutional partisanship -- Party identity and issue preferences in the 1998 election -- Party identity and institutional partisanship in agenda setting -- Institutional partisanship and roll call voting -- Conclusion.
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.001.0001
- ISBN
- 0199845352; 9780199845354
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Number of pages
- xv, 228 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983921855502771
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