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How Women Represent Women : political parties, gender and representation in the state legislatures

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Though the number of women elected to the U.S. state legislatures has increased substantially in the last forty years, researchers still struggle to connect the presence of women in the legislature to public policy outcomes that affect women. One reason for this struggle is that we lack a complete understanding of how political parties modify the relationship between women legislators' interests in representing women and the creation of public policies that concern them.
In How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender and Representation in the State Legislatures, Tracy L. Osborn argues that political parties fundamentally shape the pursuit of women's policy issues in American politics. When women represent women, they do so as partisans.

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324 OSB h

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press., 2012

Collation

xv, 228p.; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-19-984534-7

Classification

324

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Subject(s)

Political parties
Women
Women - Political activity
Women in politics
Women legislators
Women - Government policy

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