The Impact of Women in Congress
Series: Gender and Politics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 May 2006
- ISBN 9780198296744
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 241x163x23 mm
- Weight 629 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a major new assessment of the impact of women members of the US Congress on public policy and Congress itself. Drawing on three key case studies (reproductive health, women's health, and health policy) from the 103rd and 104th Congresses, Dodson highlights the complex forces that shape what women members do and their influence on the institution.
MoreLong description:
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 difference which often lurk beneath the surface - the probabilistic rather than deterministic relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women, the contested legitimacy of women representing women, and the disagreement about what it means to represent women. The analysis moves the literature toward a better integrated understanding of how gendered forces at the individual, institutional, and societal levels combine to reinforce and redefine gendered relationships to power in the public sphere. The results can be generalized over time and across settings, are meaningful even in periods when the answer to the question of whether women make a difference seems to be more frequently 'no' than 'yes,' and point to strategies that may bolster the impact of women's presence for substantive representation of women.
The title understates the scope of this book. While students of Congress indeed should read this book - and not only those interested in women - so should those concerned about policymaking, representation, and new approaches to studying institutions. Its conclusions are sophisticated and nuanced, and illuminate all of these fields...The book provides a suitably complex framework for understanding a major change under way in representation, policy making, and institutional power.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Rethinking Difference
Capturing the Process
Part II: Representing Women, Consensus, and Complexity
Representing Women: The Elite to Elite Connection
Representing Women in the Mass Public
Part III: Difference, Negotiation, and Constraints in the Policy Process
Reproductive Rights, Gender Difference, and the Paradox of Power
Reproductive Rights: Redefining the Meaning of Critical Mass
Women's Health: Staying the Course with a Critical Mass
Women's Health in the 104th: A Shelter in the Storm
Health Care Policy in the 103rd: The Convergence of the Politics of Presence and the Politics of Ideas
Health Insurance Reform in the 104th
Conclusion: Looking Toward the Future
Methodological Appendix
Bibliography
