See Jane Get Appointed: Gender, Representation, and Power in the American Federal Bureaucracy

Cassidy, Jennifer C.

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Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Cassidy, Jennifer C. (creator); Schiller, Wendy (Director); Moffitt, Susan (Reader); Lawless, Jennifer (Reader); Krause, Sharon (Reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: gender; representative bureaucracy; representation; Sex; Bureaucracy
Extent:: 15, 225 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7301/Z02Z13X2

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Abstract:: Since its inception and establishment as a field, research of gender in American politics has primarily focused on women that run for office, and subsequently, women that win. What about women who do not seek electoral pathways to power, but instead hold prestigious and powerful appointed positions? Does their presence in politics make a difference in terms of substantive gender representation? This dissertation assesses descriptive trends in the appointment process over time and then evaluates the potential for substantive impact of women in political appointments. Using a self-created database, the Political Appointee Representation Project (PARP), which includes both macro-level time series data of political appointments since 1992, a unique 2013 survey of current political appointees, and supplemental interviews of political appointees (past and present), I find that the increased presence of women in political appointments has a substantive impact on the representation of American women. This finding holds true at both the department level and in the greater American political landscape. Ultimately, this study makes it clear that women’s parity within political appointments is critical for the substantive representation of women within the policymaking process.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2015)

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Cassidy, Jennifer C., "See Jane Get Appointed: Gender, Representation, and Power in the American Federal Bureaucracy" (2015). Political Science Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z02Z13X2

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