Research and Scholarship

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

  • 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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