Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way (eBook)

Karen Owen (Autor)

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2016
186 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2983-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores a presumptive belief that female political role models influence other women’s political participation. It presents extensive research showing that women's descriptive and symbolic representation affects other women's candidacy decisions and electoral successes when ascending to higher political offices.

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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.

Autor

Karen L. Owen is assistant professor of political science and the director of the Master of Public Administration program at Reinhardt University.

Inhalt

Chapter 2: Defining the Who and What that Emboldens the Ascension of Women to Higher Political OfficeChapter 4: Determinants of Women’s Ascension to the U.S. House of RepresentativesChapter 6: Moving Across the Capitol: Women’s Ascension to State GovernorshipsAppendix A: Interview Schedule for Female PoliticiansAppendix C: Female Political Role ModelsReferencesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 32 Illustrations including: - 8 Black & White Illustrations; - 24 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Female Candidates • female politicians • Female role models • Gender Studies • Political Role Models • Role Models • Women as Governors • Women in Congress • Women in Higher Office • women in politics • Women in the Senate • Women Officeholders • Women running for office
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2983-6 / 1498529836
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2983-9 / 9781498529839