Description
Book SynopsisInvestigating the opportunities, resources, and frames that women utilize to create legislative caucuses
Trade Review"In addition to important documentation of women’s caucuses and where they have emerged, Mahoney offers important theoretical and conceptual contributions to literatures on identity politics, partisanship, and collective action within legislative institutions.... Beyond telling compelling stories about the success or failure of specific caucuses,
Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures successfully tells a much larger—and even more broadly applicable—story about the ways in which gender and partisanship significantly shape the patterns, distribution, and exercise of power within our legislative institutions."--
State LegislatureTable of ContentsTable of Contents
Chapter One: Women Take Their Place……………….…………...……………………………..9
Chapter Two: Many Paths to Yes: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses………………………..33
Chapter Three: For Women, There is No One Way or Place to Caucus………………………...52
Chapter Four: The New Jersey Women’s Legislative Caucus………………………………..…85
Chapter Five: The Colorado Women’s Legislative Caucus……………………………………114
Chapter Six: The Pennsylvania Attempt………………………………………………………..148
Chapter Seven: The Iowa Attempt……………………………………………………………...174
Chapter Eight: Explaining Women’s Caucuses………………………………………………...199
References………………………………………………………………………………………219
