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| Preface to the Second Edition | ||
| Preface to the First Edition | ||
| 1 | Women in Public Office: Intellectual and Historical Background | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Women and Political Representation | 4 |
| Women and the Franchise from the 1500s to the 1700s | 4 | |
| Colonial Women as Political Decision Makers | 6 | |
| The American Revolution and the Loss of Political Rights for Women | 8 | |
| The Return of Women to Political Life | 9 | |
| Women and the Style of Local Government | 10 | |
| The Suffrage Movement and Women in Public Office | 12 | |
| The Need for Women's Political Representation | 15 | |
| Political Theory and Representation of Women | 18 | |
| Conclusions: The Problem and the Puzzle | 24 | |
| 2 | Women Candidates: Local, State, and National | 27 |
| Ch. 2 | Electing Women to Local Government | 30 |
| The Increase in Women City Officeholders | 31 | |
| Minority Women and Local Officeholding | 33 | |
| Reasons for Limited Female Representation in Local Office | 35 | |
| The Future of Women in Local Government | 49 | |
| Ch. 3 | Women as State Legislative Candidates | 51 |
| Patterns of Women's Representation among the States | 52 | |
| State Environments and Women's Legislative Representation | 55 | |
| Women as Legislative Candidates | 63 | |
| Conclusions | 73 | |
| Ch. 4 | Women as Congressional Candidates | 74 |
| The Comparative Context | 74 | |
| Voters and Congressional Candidates | 77 | |
| The Congressional Campaigns of Women and Men | 83 | |
| Conclusions | 100 | |
| 3 | Structural Barriers to the Representation of Women | 101 |
| Ch. 5 | The Eligibility Pool | 104 |
| Prior Research | 106 | |
| Testing the Relationship between Women's Occupations and Election to Office | 113 | |
| The Eligible Pool in Europe | 116 | |
| Implications | 118 | |
| Ch. 6 | Women Candidates and Legislative Turnover | 119 |
| Eligible Pools | 120 | |
| State Legislatures | 122 | |
| U.S. House of Representatives | 127 | |
| Legislative Turnover in Comparative Perspective | 132 | |
| Conclusions | 134 | |
| Appendix: BASIC Computer Program to Project Female Legislative and Congressional Representation | 135 | |
| Ch. 7 | Women Candidates and the Electoral System | 138 |
| The Bias in Electoral Systems | 138 | |
| Electing Women in Single-Member District and Proportional-Representation Systems | 140 | |
| Single-Member District Systems | 142 | |
| Proportional Representation | 146 | |
| Single-Member and Multimember District Systems in the United States and the United Kingdom | 157 | |
| Conclusions | 169 | |
| 4 | Conclusions: The Tasks Ahead | 173 |
| Ch. 8 | Opening Up Political Life to Women | 174 |
| Can Women Win When They Run? | 175 | |
| Why Don't More Women Run? | 178 | |
| Impact of the Electoral System on Women | 180 | |
| Do Women in Office Make a Difference? | 181 | |
| Strategies for Change | 184 | |
| Notes | 197 | |
| References | 239 | |
| Author Index | 263 | |
| Subject Index | 271 |
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Melvin G Holt
reviewed Women, Elections, and Representation (Second Edition, Revised) on May 05, 2014
Women, Elections, and Representation (Second Edition, Revised)
As a writer I've long assumed that First Amendment rights were enshrined in the Constitution. However, after readying Christopher M. Finan's history I realized for the first time just how tenuous those rights are in U.S. history. It is truly amazing to read a book that attempts to compile in one place all of the efforts to restrain free speech and the free press. I was familiar with many if not most of the individual incidents but to have them covered at one time certainly leaves an impression that there has been a segment of U.S. society willing to muzzle this freedom based on real or imagined threats.
My only reservation about the book is the quasi political bent it takes toward the more recent censorship efforts. I had the impression the author was attempting to make a political point that certain parties are more prone to abandon the First Amendment of the Constitution. Perhaps this is true although the treatment in this book compromises the unbiased quality of the historical research.
Books such as this one are a reminder the Constitution is under constant threat and requires constant vigilance by all citizens.
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