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  • Women and American Politics: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century

    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1996, 29 pages 

    In April 1994, CAWP convened a group of 79 scholars, researchers, political practitioners, and activists to help identify existing gaps in our knowledge, discuss the reasons for the gaps, and imagine the kinds of research projects needed to address unanswered questions in our understanding of women's political behavior.

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  • Voices, Views, Votes: Women in the 103rd Congress

    by Debra L. Dodson, Susan J. Carroll, Ruth B. Mandel, Katherine E. Kleeman, Ronnee Schreiber, and Debra Liebowitz
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1995, 32 pages

    This report examines how the women in the 103rd Congress acted to shape the content of legislation, to build support for bills, and to create a political environment in which they could effect change. 

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  • Equality Deferred: Women Candidates for the New Jersey Assembly 1920-1993

    by Richard P. and Katheryne McCormick 
    Center for American Women and Politics, 1994, 49 pages 

    This report explores the history of women's candidacies for the New Jersey Assembly and analyzes some of the reasons for the status of women as office-seekers in the state. 

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  • Women as Candidates in American Politics

    by Susan J. Carroll
    Indiana University Press, 1994, second edition, 264 pages

    This book examines political parties' recruitment of women candidates, the factors that affect the outcomes of women's primary election campaigns, the future officeholding ambitions of women candidates, and women candidates' views on women's issues. 

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  • "The Politics of Difference: Women Public Officials as Agents of Change"

    by Susan J. Carroll
    Stanford Law and Policy Review, Spring 1994

    Because women bring a different set of life experiences into the political arena that affects their behavior as public officials, voters have good reason to view women politicians as agents of change.
     

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  • The Political Careers of Women Elected Officials: An Assessment and Research Agenda

    by Susan J. Carroll
    Book chapter in Ambition and Beyond: The Career Paths of American Politicians, edited by Shirley Williams and Edward L. Lascher, Jr. (Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1993)

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