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While existing literature provides compelling evidence that women in public office make a difference, the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in political institutions long the domain of men is neither simple nor certain. Embracing New Institutionalists'warnings of the dangers of studying behaviour in an institutional vacuum, this book uses two strikingly different yet consecutive congresses - the Democratically controlled 103rd Congress elected during the'Year of the Woman'and the Republican-controlled 104th Congress elected during the'Year of the Angry White Male'- as laboratories to explore the complexity of the relationship between women's presence and impact. In-depth interviews with hundreds of staff, lobbyists, and women members of Congress, along with other quantitative and archival data, are the foundation for case studies of three highly visible policy areas (reproductive rights, women's health, and health care policy) important to women, but with strikingly different outcomes across the two Congresses. The inquiry is quickly moved beyond the simple question'Do women make a difference?'Dodson confronts the contested issues surrounding

Author

Debra L. Dodson

Publisher

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; Oxford University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191603709

Subjects

Political Science, Gender Studies, Social_sciences