Research and Scholarship

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

  • The Impact of Women in Public Office

    Edited by Susan J. Carroll 
    Indiana University Press, 2001, 256 pages

    The studies in this book examine the impact of women public officials serving in various offices and locales at local, state, and national levels.  Order from Amazon and a percentage of the sale goes to CAWP.

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    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    State Legislature
    Local
    Statewide Executive
    Congress
  • Women State Legislators: Past, Present, and Future

    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001, 14 pages

    In 2001, CAWP surveyed female and male state legislators and compared the new data with prior CAWP research findings. The initial brief research reports include descriptions of women legislators today and comparisons with their male colleagues as well as with their 1988 counterparts.

    Report
    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    State Legislature
  • Legislating by and for Women: A Comparison of the 103rd and 104th Congresses

    by Mary Hawkesworth, Debra Dodson, Katherine E. Kleeman, Kathleen J. Casey, and Krista Jenkins
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2000, 51 pages

    This report examines the political work of women legislators in the 103rd and 104th congresses as they attempted to transform their commitment to represent women into law. 

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    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    Congress
  • 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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    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Women and Term Limits
    State Legislature
  • 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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    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Women and Term Limits
  • 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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    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Impact of Women Public Officials
    Congress