Civic and Political Activism

  • Gender Politics and the Socializing Impact of the Women's Movement

    by Susan J. Carroll
    Book chapter in Political Learning in Adulthood: A Sourcebook of Theory and Research, edited by Roberta S. Sigel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)

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  • Elected Women Organize: Statewide Associations

    by Wendy S. Strimling 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1986, 40 pages 

    This report examines the status of statewide associations of elected women in twelve states. The associations bring women together across party lines and from all levels of office.

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    Civic and Political Activism
    Impact of Women Public Officials
  • Women's PACs

    by Katherine E. Kleeman 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1983, 28 pages

    This monograph, based on information gathered at a meeting with representatives of fourteen political action committees which solely or primarily support women candidates, describes some of the key questions faced by such groups, and illustrates the varied ways in which they have answered these questions.

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  • Political Women Tell What It Takes

    by Kathy A. Stanwick
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    1983, 37 pages

    This report focuses on the roles that political parties, women's organizations, and individual women have played in recruiting and supporting women candidates and appointees. 

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    Political Parties
    Civic and Political Activism
    Candidate Recruitment
    Women Political Appointees
    Impact of Women Public Officials
  • Women's Organizations in the Public Service: Toward Agenda Setting

    by Diane Rothbard Margolis and Kathy Stanwick 
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1980, 114 pages

    This report identifies organizations of women public officials across the country and examines their goals and agendas, describing the founding of these organizations, their structures, their relationships with parent organizations, their reasons for forming, and their programs.

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    Civic and Political Activism
  • Leaders of Organizations of Women Public Officials: Report from a Conference

    by Diane Rothbard Margolis
    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1980, 31 pages

    A report from CAWP's 1980 conference in Washington, D.C., attended by seventy-five leaders representing over forty organizations of women in politics and government. This conference was conducted under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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  • Lobbying in New Jersey


    This instructional handbook from 1978 describes the process of lobbying within a state legislative framework, listing resources from that time necessary to plan and carry out an effective lobbying campaign and explaining the legal requirements surrounding advocacy when the handbook was written. 

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    New Jersey
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    Civic and Political Activism
  • Voluntary Participation Among Women in the United States: A Selected Bibliography, 1950-1976

    Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1976, 35 pages
     

    This bibliography cites materials dealing with the nature and extent of U.S. women's voluntary activities and affiliations from 1950-1976.

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