Title
Women and Men's Legislative Success in the 21st Century Professional and Citizen State Legislatures
Abstract
The bill-passage success of women and men legislators in professional and in citizen state legislatures is evaluated using a path analytical model. The model consists of exogenous personal, institutional, district, and state-level variables, an intervening variable of legislative leadership positions, and the direct and indirect effects of these variables on bill-passage success. With data from a 2004 survey of all fifty lower state houses compared to a similar 1992 nationwide survey of state legislators, women legislators display increased legislative positions and bill-passage in both professional and citizen state legislatures. The model predicts that institutional factors and, to a lesser extent, personal attributes are essential components for acquiring legislative positions as well as bill-passage success for women and men in both types of legislatures.
Department(s)
Political Science
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2011.32.0.213-231
Rights Information
American Review of Politics is open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Publication Date
2011
Recommended Citation
Whistler, Donald E., and Mark C. Ellickson. "Women and Men's Legislative Success in the 21st Century Professional and Citizen State Legislatures." American Review of Politics 32 (2011): 213-231.
Journal Title
American Review of Politics
