Women, Politics, and Power - Hughes, Melanie M; Paxton, Pamela; Barnes, Tiffany D
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Women, Politics, and Power is the essential text on women in politics. It provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political representation globally and comparatively across six regions. Readers learn about cultural, structural, political, and international influences on women's power and the difference women make once in office.

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Women, Politics, and Power is the essential text on women in politics. It provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political representation globally and comparatively across six regions. Readers learn about cultural, structural, political, and international influences on women's power and the difference women make once in office.
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Pamela Paxton is the Linda K. George and John Wilson Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in economics and sociology and her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has consulted for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Academies. She has intersecting research interests in prosocial behavior, politics, gender, and methodology. She is the author of articles and books on women in politics, nonprofits, and quantitative methodology. Her research has appeared in a variety of journals, including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She is also an author of Nonrecursive Models: Endogeneity, Reciprocal Relationships, and Feedback Loops (2011). Melanie M. Hughes is a professor of sociology, has a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is a codirector of the Gender Inequality Research Lab (GIRL) at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA in government and sociology from the University of Texas and an MA and PhD in sociology from the Ohio State University. Her research considers how gender intersects with other forces of marginalization to influence women's political power. She has published numerous articles on women's legislative representation cross-nationally in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, European Journal of Political Research, and Politics & Gender. Currently, she is consulting with the United Nations Development Programme to increase the availability of data on women in decision-making positions in public administration. She is also writing a book on the political dominance of men from majority racial, ethnic, and religious groups worldwide. Tiffany D. Barnes is professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a BA in political science from Southwestern University and her PhD in political science from Rice University. Her research focuses on gender and politics, Latin America, and comparative political institutions. Her first book Gendering Legislative Behavior (Cambridge University Press 2016) won the Alan Rosenthal Prize in 2017. Her newest book, Working Class Inclusion (Cambridge University Press 2023) won the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize (2024). Her other research appears in journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Politics & Gender. She was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Legislative Studies Section of the APSA and the Early Career Award from the Midwest Women's Caucus for Political Science. She formerly served as the president for the Midwest Women's Caucus, editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, and associate editor at Research & Politics. She is currently an executive editor at the British Journal of Political Science and a series editor for Cambridge Elements in Gender & Politics Series.