Journal article
Women in the Majority: Critical Mass and the New Hampshire Senate
Journal of women, politics & policy, Vol.41(3), pp.303-319
07/02/2020
DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2020.1805420
Abstract
In 2009, the New Hampshire Senate became the first chamber in the United States where a majority of the legislators were women. In this article, we test whether a female majority changed the agenda content and behavior of legislators in the 2009-2010 session. We compare bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship in the majority woman session to three other sessions of the chamber. We find that the content of the legislative agenda did not change significantly under a female majority; however, women legislators did co-sponsor each other's bills more often in the majority women session. Our results suggest that partisanship rather than gender drives legislators' behavior under a female majority.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Women in the Majority: Critical Mass and the New Hampshire Senate
- Creators
- Emily U Schilling - University of TennesseeTracy L Osborn - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of women, politics & policy, Vol.41(3), pp.303-319
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/1554477X.2020.1805420
- ISSN
- 1554-477X
- eISSN
- 1554-4788
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/02/2020
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984077782002771
Metrics
23 Record Views