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References for:
Does it Matter if Women, Minorities and Gays Govern? New Data Concerning an Old Question

by Richard Ogmundson

Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 30(3) Summer 2005

re: The Policy Impact of Women in Elites:

• Baxter, S. and M. Lansing
  1983 Women and Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
• Berkman, Michael B. and Robert E. O'Connor
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• Bystydzienski, Jill M. (ed.)
  1992 Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Struggles for Empowerment. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press
• Carroll, Susan J., Debra Dobson and Ruth Mandel
  1991 The Impact of Women in Office: An Overview. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for American Women and Politics
• Carroll, Susan J.
  1984 "Women Candidates and Support for Feminist Concerns: The Closet Feminist Syndrome." Western Political Quarterly. 37: 307-323.
• Crowley, J.E.
  2004 "When tokens matter." Legislative Studies Quarterly. 29(1): 109-136
• Diamond, Irene
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• Dodson, Debra L. and Susan Carroll
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  1995 "Women in the State Legislatures: Feminist identity and legislative behaviours." American Politics Quarterly. 23(1): 96-108
• Dolan, Julie
  1997 "Support for women's interests in the 103rd Congress: the distinct impact of congressional women." Women and Politics. 18(4): 81-84
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• Frankovic, Kathleen
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• Gehlen, Freida L.
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• Kathlene, Lyn
  1989 "Uncovering the political impacts of gender: An exploratory study" Western Political Quarterly. 42(2): 397-421
  1995 "Alternative Views of Crime: Legislative Policy Making in Gendered Terms." Journal of Politics. 57(3): 696-723
• Kelly, Rita Mae and Georgia Duerst-Lahti
  1995 "The Study of Gender Power and its Links to Governance and Leadership" in Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mae Kelly (eds.) Gender Power: Leadership and Governance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
• Leader, Sheila G.
  1977 "The Policy Impact of Elected Women Officials" in Louis Maisel and Joseph Cooper (eds.) The Impact of the Electoral Process. Beverly Hills, California: Sage.
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• Nelson, Albert J.
  1991 Emerging Influentials in State Legislatures: Women, Blacks and Hispanics. New York: Praeger.
• Norris, Pippa
  1986 "Women in Congress: A Policy Difference?" Politics 6: 34-40.
• Norton, Noelle H.
  1999 "Uncovering the dimensionality of gender voting in Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly 24(1): 65-86.
• Reingold, Beth
  1992 "Concepts of Representation Among Female and Male State Legislators." Legislative Studies Quarterly 17(4): 509-537.
• Rosenthal, Cindy Simon
  1997 "A View of their own: Women's Committee Leadership Styles and State Legislatures." Policy Studies Journal 25: 585-600.
  1998 When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures. New York: Oxford University Press.
  2000 "Gender styles in state legislative committees: Raising their voices in resolving conflict." Women and Politics 21: 21-45.
• Saint-Germain, Michelle A.
  1989 "Does their difference make a difference?: The Impact of Women on Public in the Arizona Legislature." Social Science Quarterly 70(4): 956-965.
• Saltzstein, Grace H.
  1986 "Female Mayors and Women in Municipal Jobs." American Journal of Political Science 30: 140-64.
• Soule, J. W. and W. E. McGrath
  1977 "A Comparative Study of Male-Female Political Attitudes at Citizen and Elite Levels" in M. Gerhens and M. Prestage (eds.) A Portrait of Marginality. New York: McKay.
• Stanwick, K. and K. Kleeman
  1983 Women Make a Difference. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for the Study of American Women and Politics.
• Swers, Michele L.
  1998 "Are congresswomen more likely to vote for women's issue bills than their male colleagues?" Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 435-38.
• Taylor-Robinson, M. M. and R. M. Heath
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• Thomas, Sue
  1991 "The Impact of Women on State Legislative Policies." Journal of Politics 53(4): 958- 976. 1992 "The Effects of Race and Gender on Constituency Service." Western Political Quarterly 45(1): 169-180. 1994 How Women Legislate. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997 "Why Gender Matters: the Perceptions of Women Officeholders." Women and Politics 17: 27-53.
• Thomas, Sue and Susan Welch
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• Tremblay, Manon
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re: The Policy Impact of Racial Minorities in American Elites

• Button, J. and D. Hedge
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• Byng, M.D.
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• Cobb, M.D. and J.A. Jenkins
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• Dye, Thomas R. and J. Renick
  1981 "Political Power and City Jobs: Determinants of Minority Employment." Social Science Quarterly 62(3): 475-486.
• Eisenger, Peter K.
  1982 "Black Employment in Political Jobs: the Impact of Black Political Power." American Political Science Review 76(2): 380-392.
• Gilliam, F.D.
  1996 "Exploring Minority Empowerment: Symbolic Politics, governing coalitions, and traces of political style in Los Angeles." American Journal of Political Science 40(1): 56- 81.
• Holmes, M.D., H.M. Hosch, H.C. Daudistel, D.A. Perez and J. B. Graves
  1993 "Judges Ethnicity and Minority Sentencing: Evidence Concerning Hispanics." Social Science Quarterly 74(3): 496-506.
• Karnig, Albert K. and Susan Welch
  1980 Black Representation and Urban Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Keller, Edmond J.
  1978 "The Impact of Black Mayors on Urban Policy." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 439:40-52
• LaVeist, T.A.
  1992 "The Political Empowerment and Health-Status of African-Americans: Mapping a New Territory." American Journal of Sociology. 97(4): 1080-1095
• Meier, Kenneth and Robert E. England
  1984 "Black Representation and Educational Policy: Are They Related?" American Political Science Review 78: 392-403.
• Mladenka, Kenneth R.
  1989 "Blacks and Hispanics in Urban Politics." American Political Science Review. 83:165-192
• Miller, Cheryl M.
  1990 "Agenda Setting by State Legislative Black Caucuses: Policy Priorities and Factors of Success." Policy Studies Review 9(2): 339-54.
• Nelson, Albert J.
  1991 Emerging Influentials in State Legislatures: Women, Blacks and Hispanics. New York: Praeger.

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