Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xxvi, 256 p)
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
025334008X
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0253214882
Inhalt:
"[A] well-integrated volume by...one of the best known political scientists working on women and politics.... [It] includes contributions by leading scholars in the field, and provides a well-written and accessible overview of the impact of women in office atevery level..." -- Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"This [book] will be the standard-bearer not simply because it contains most of the early research in the field but more importantly, because of the wide-ranging
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Representing Women: Women State Legislators as Agents of Policy-Related Change; 2. Words That Matter: Women 's Voice and Institutional Bias in Public Policy Formation; 3. Acting as Women: The Effects and Limitations of Gender in Local Governance; 4. Local Elected Women and Policy-Making: Movement Delegates or Feminist Trustees?; 5. Senator-at-Large for America 's WomenŽ: Margaret Chase Smith and the Paradox of Gender Affinity; 6. Foreign Policy Decision Makers: The Impact of Gender
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7. Do Women Leaders Make a Difference? Substance, Style, and Perceptions8. The Impact of Women in State Legislatures: Numerical and Organizational Strength; 9. Black Women in State Legislatures: The Relationship of Race and Gender to the Legislative Experience; 10. Feminist Judges: Challenging the Status Quo; 11. Acting for Women: Is What Legislators Say, What They Do?; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780253340085
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Impact of Women in Public Office
Sprache:
Englisch
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