The Impact of Women in Congress
ISBN13: 9780198296744ISBN10: 0198296746
Hardback,
312 pages
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Jun 2006,
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Description
This is a major new assessment of the impact of women members of the US Congress on public policy and Congress itself. Drawing on three key case studies--reproductive health, women's health, and health policy--from the 103rd and 104th Congresses, Dodson highlights the complex forces that shape what women members do and their influence on the institution.Features
- Major new examination of the effect of women on masculine institutions and masculine institutions on the women who work inside them
- Combines extensive quantitative research with innovative qualitative analysis to provide explanations behind the findings
- Uses two most diametrically different contiguous Congresses in the last half century to explore the strategies likely to maximize substantive representation of women - irrespective of women's proportional presence
Reviews
"The title understates the scope of this book. While students of Congress indeed should read this book - and not only those interested in women - so should those concerned about policymaking, representation, and new approaches to studying institutions. Its conclusions are sophisticated and nuanced, and illuminate all of these fields...The book provides a suitably complex framework for understanding a major change under way in representation, policy making, and institutional power."--Political Science Quarterly
About the Author(s)
Debra L. Dodson, Senior Research Associate at the Center for the American Woman and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
