Political Science and Public Policy

Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures

The Creation of Women’s Caucuses

Anna Mitchell Mahoney

Investigating the opportunities, resources, and frames that women utilize to create legislative caucuses

258 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 19 tables, 2 maps

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Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua

Jennifer Leigh Disney

Tracking women’s movements through two developing world revolutions and neo-liberal democracies

306 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 tables, 2 halftones, 2 maps

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Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua

Jennifer Leigh Disney

Tracking women’s movements through two developing world revolutions and neo-liberal democracies

306 pages

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Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia

Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See

A penetrating look at the experiences of women activists and their organizations in Russia since perestroika

277 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Women's Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil

The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff

Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai

What the rise and fall of Brazil’s first and only female president can teach us about women’s empowerment

214 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 tables, 7 figures

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The Women's Movements of the United States and Western Europe

Consciousness, Political Opportunity, and Public Policy

Edited by Carol McClurg Mueller, and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

Fills a gap in feminist scholarship by focusing on women’s movements and the different opportunities their political environments provide

366 pages | 6 x 9

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Women's Political Voice

How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics

Janet A. Flammang

A new feminist approach to political science and politics

480 pages | 6 x 9

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Women, International Development, and Politics

The Bureaucratic Mire

Edited by Kathleen Staudt

New edition reflects the intensified interest in women's empowerment in developing countries demonstrated by the Beijing Conference

356 pages | 6 x 9

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Workforce Development Politics

Civic Capacity and Performance

edited by Robert P. Giloth

A look at local efforts to improve job training

296 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 tables, 6 figures, 2 halftones, 1 map

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Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-first Century

Edited by Robert P. Giloth

The institutions who work to match employers and employees

432 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 tables, 2 figures, 22 halftones

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Wrongful Conviction

International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice

Edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias

A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions

326 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 tables

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Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.

Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability

Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic

Examining the dominant, unitary "innocent girl–predatory man" policy narrative to improve research, policy, and community interventions for young people in the sex trades

244 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 24 tables, 2 figures, 2 halftones

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