Research and Scholarship

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

  • Women's Evolving Role in Tribal Politics: Native Women Leaders in 21 Southwestern Indian Nations

    by Diane-Michele Prindeville
    2002, 36 pages

    Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University.  Prindeville's study explores the role of Southwestern Native American women leaders in tribal politics, and their right to participate equally with men in their nations’ governance.  

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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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    Impact of Women Public Officials
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  • 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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    Women and Term Limits
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