Women, Men & US Politics: 10 Big Questions - Softcover

Lawless, Jennifer L.; Fox, Richard L.

9780393602548: Women, Men & US Politics: 10 Big Questions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393602540 ISBN 13: 9780393602548

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2017

Alle Exemplare dieser ISBN-Ausgabe

1 Gebraucht

Von EUR 14,42

0 Neu

Rese�a del editor

Renowned researchers and writers Jen Lawless and Richard Fox bring groundbreaking research on gender and politics into the undergraduate classroom. In this brief, accessibly written text, the authors focus on the big empirical questions that animate the study of gender and politics and ask students to think critically and analytically about these often surprising findings.

Biograf�a del autor

Jennifer L. Lawless is professor of government at American University, where she is also the director of the Women & Politics Institute. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. from Union College in 1997. Professor Lawless's research, which has been supported by the National Science Foundation, focuses on representation, political ambition, and gender in the electoral process. She is the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and the coauthor of Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Campaigns in a Polarized Era (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2015), and It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in academic journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Politics & Gender (of which she served as editor from 2010 till 2013). She is also a nationally recognized speaker on electoral politics. Her scholarly analysis and political commentary have been quoted in numerous newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and radio shows. For the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, she was part of the NBC's Decision Night in America programming. In 2006, she sought the Democratic nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives in Rhode Island's second congressional district. Richard L. Fox is professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College. His research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and teaching focus on the U.S. Congress, elections, media and politics, and gender politics. He is the coeditor of iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is also the coauthor of Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2015), It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tabloid Justice: The Criminal Justice System in the Age of Media Frenzy, 2nd edition (Lynne Rienner, 2007). His work has appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, PS, and Politics & Gender. He has also published op-eds in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Prior to coming to Loyola Marymount University, he was professor and chair of the political science department at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.