Book chapter
Party Identity and Institutional Partisanship in Agenda-Setting
How Women Represent Women
Oxford University Press
03/15/2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0005
Abstract
Chapter 5 examines the bills that women legislators introduce to the legislative agenda using the subsample of 10 state houses. Though women legislators introduce significantly more women’s issues bills in seven of the ten chambers, the alternatives they offer in these bills reflect the divides in their party identities. Democratic women concentrate on providing issue alternatives for women’s health and equality; Republican women, though they also address women’s health, focus on childcare and morality policies. Men of both parties also introduce many women’s issues items. Republican men, in fact, typically introduce more women’s issues bills than Republican women, including bills concerning reproduction, marriage and divorce, and punitive consequences for sex offenders and other crimes affecting women. This chapter demonstrates institutional partisanship is important to bill sponsorship as well, because the
majority party controls which bills that Democrats and Republicans introduce continue through the legislative process and ultimately become law.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Party Identity and Institutional Partisanship in Agenda-Setting
- Creators
- Tracy L Osborn
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How Women Represent Women
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/15/2012
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983988994002771
Metrics
28 Record Views