Research and Scholarship

CAWP research and research by CAWP scholars that addresses emerging questions about American women's political participation. 

  • Gender Stereotypes and Gender Preferences in American Politics

    by Kira Sanbonmatsu and Kathleen Dolan
    Chapter in Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies, Eds. John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw. Princeton University Press, 2012

    Book Chapter
    Research
    CAWP Scholar
    Candidates and Campaigns
    Women Voters and the Gender Gap
    Congress
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  • The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

    by Kristin A. Goss, assistant professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
    University of Michigan Press, 2012, 256 pages

    This book is part of the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics published by the University of Michigan Press in association with CAWP. Goss charts the scope and trajectory of American women's policy agendas and collective engagement in public policy-making from the 19th-century suffrage movement through the present day.
     

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    Research
    CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics
    Civic and Political Activism
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