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Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way

  • ISBN-13: 9781498529846
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Karen Owen
  • Price: AUD $88.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2018
  • Format: Paperback 186 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Recent electoral seasons in American politics demonstrate women's keen interest, involvement, and influence as candidates and officeholders. Women possess political ambition, albeit in varying degrees, and as such, women seek opportunities to be politically engaged and affect America's representative institutions. This book analyzes why American women run for political office, and explores how political role models, identified as publicly elected officials and/or those who have served in the political arena, have greatly motivated women to run for higher political office, including seats in the U.S. Congress and state governorships. Evidence from personal interviews with ten congresswomen and fifty-five female state legislators reveals the ambitious nature of female politicians, the encouragement of political factors in their decisions to advance in politics, and their perceived responsibility to be role models to other women. Moreover, in studying thirty-five years of elections data, I find substantial support for how female political role models influence female state legislators' candidacies and electoral outcomes to higher office. This work highlights the importance of women as symbolic representatives; female politicians are instrumental in emboldening a new generation of women to engage in politics. Role models in politics indeed have a purpose and an influential nature.
List of Tables List of Figures Chapter 1: Women's Ascension into American Politics Chapter 2: Defining the Who and What that Emboldens the Ascension of Women to Higher Political Office Chapter 3: Deciding to Run for Higher Office: Females' Perspectives On Their Political Journeys Chapter 4: Determinants of Women's Ascension to the U.S. House of Representatives Chapter 5: Climbing Higher: Women's Ascension to the U.S. Senate Chapter 6: Moving Across the Capitol: Women's Ascension to State Governorships Chapter7: Female Politicians: Role Models Advancing Their Gender's Representation Appendix A: Interview Schedule for Female Politicians Appendix B: State Legislators' Emergence to the U.S. House of Representatives and State Governorships Appendix C: Female Political Role Models References About the Author
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