Research and Scholarship

CAWP research and research by CAWP scholars that addresses emerging questions about American women's political participation. 

  • The Impact of Term Limits on Women

    by Susan J. Carroll 
    Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, 2001, 3 pages 

    This article finds that "contrary to the expectation of term-limit advocates and many scholars, the number of women serving in term-limited statehouse seats actually decreased following the 1998 and 2000 elections."

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  • Term Limits and the Representation of Women

    by Mary Hawkesworth and Katherine E. Kleeman 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001, 24 pages

    This monograph reports on a November, 1999 CAWP meeting to examine preliminary data on the impact of term limits on women’s representation and to explore how women might capitalize upon the political opportunities created by term limits.

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  • Welfare Reform in the 104th Congress: Institutional Position and the Role of Women

    by Susan J. Carroll (with Kathleen J. Casey)
    Book chapter in Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe, edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert (Rutgers University Press, 2001)

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