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Title The Impact of Women in Congress
Published Oxford Scholarship Online 2006

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Description 1 online resource (308)
Series Gender and politics
Gender and politics.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I46; Introduction58; The Best of Times44; The Worst of Times -- 146; Rethinking Difference -- 246; Capturing the Process -- Part II46; Representing Women58; Consensus and Complexity -- 346; Representing Women58; The Elite to Elite Connection -- 446; Representing Women58; The Constituency Connection -- Part III46; Difference44; Negotiation44; and Constraints in the Policy Process -- 546; Reproductive Rights58; Gender Difference and the Paradox of Power -- 646; Reproductive Rights58; Redefining the Meaning of Critical Mass -- 746; Womens Health58; Staying the Course with a Critical Mass -- 846; Womens Health58; A Shelter in the Storm -- 946; Health Care Reform58; The Convergence of the Politics of Presence and the Politics of Ideas -- 1046; Health Insurance Reform58; Institutional Structure44; Contingent Meanings -- Conclusion58; Looking Toward the Future -- Methodological Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Last Page
Summary While existing literature provides compelling evidence that women in public office make a difference, the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in political institutions long the domain of men is neither simple nor certain. Embracing new institutionalist's' warnings of the dangers of studying behaviour in an institutional vacuum, this book uses two strikingly different yet consecutive congresses - the Democratically controlled 103rd Congress elected during the 'Year of the Woman' and the Republican-controlled 104th Congress elected during the 'Year of the Angry White Male' - as laboratories to explore the complexity of the relationship between women's presence and impact. In-depth interviews with hundreds of staff, lobbyists, and women members of Congress, along with other quantitative and archival data, are the foundation for case studies of three highly visible policy areas (reproductive rights, women's health, and health care policy) important to women, but with strikingly different outcomes across the two Congresses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject United States. Congress (103rd : 1993-1994)
United States. Congress (104th : 1995-1996)
SUBJECT United States. Congress fast
Subject Women -- Political activity -- United States
Women legislators -- United States.
members of Congress.
Politics and government
Women legislators
Women -- Political activity
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006372
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1281160040
9781281160041
9780191603709
0191603708
0198296746
9780198296744