The impact of women in public office / / edited by Susan J. Carroll

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 320/.082/0973
• Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - United States
• Altri autori: CarrollSusan J. <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: ""[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
• Titolo autorizzato: The impact of women in public office
• ISBN: 1-282-06296-4; 0-253-10906-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812903303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II