Research and Scholarship

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

  • The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

    by Kristin A. Goss, assistant professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
    University of Michigan Press, 2012, 256 pages

    This book is part of the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics published by the University of Michigan Press in association with CAWP. Goss charts the scope and trajectory of American women's policy agendas and collective engagement in public policy-making from the 19th-century suffrage movement through the present day.
     

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  • When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups

    by S. Laurel Weldon, professor of Political Science, Purdue University
    University of Michigan Press, 2011, 244 pages

    This book is part of the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics published by the University of Michigan Press in association with CAWP. Political theorist S. Laurel Weldon demonstrates that social movements provide a hitherto unrecognized form of democratic representation, and thus offer a significant potential for deepening democracy and overcoming social conflict. 

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    CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics
    Civic and Political Activism
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