Supporting Women Candidates: The Role of Parties, Women’s Organizations, and Political Action Committees

2021 ◽  
pp. 268-296
Author(s):  
Rosalyn Cooperman
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
Political Action Committees ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Standing on Their Shoulders: Suffragists, Women’s PACs, and Demands for Women’s Representation

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-473
Author(s):  
Rosalyn Cooperman ◽  
Melody Crowder-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
Political Action Committees ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Year Of The Woman ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Although 2018 has been called another “Year of the Woman,” increases in women’s representation that year were party-specific. Historically, women’s organizations fought to expand women’s representation in both parties; however, the fruit of these efforts is currently concentrated among Democrats. Indeed, women contributed funds in record numbers in 2018, but the majority of women donors supported Democratic women candidates (Haley 2018), and liberal women’s political action committees (PACs) played a prominent role in raising those funds.

New Empirical Evidence of the Role of Interest Groups in Influencing the Growth of Government

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Gary A. Wagner ◽  
Russell S. Sobel
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Action Committees ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

Abstract We provide new evidence regarding the role of interest groups in influencing the size and growth of government spending. Using data on the change in individual legislators’ total voted and sponsored spending from the status quo, we explore this relationship in a manner closer to the public choice tradition. Examining the impact diat interest groups have on individual legislators’ preferences for new spending, we find that interest groups within a legislator’s district exhibit more influence on the short-run growth of the budget than do Political Action Committees.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Women in the Bengali Language Movement (1952): A Historical Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-127
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
The State ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Bengali Language ◽  
Women’S Organizations

During the period 1947-48, student movements started in various areas of Bangladesh demanding to make Bengali one of the state languages. Through participation in these movements, political awareness among the girls of Bengal increased. So in the final stages of the 1952 language movement, the massive participation of girls can be noticed. The girls of Dhaka and the girls of different districts and sub-divisional cities of Bangladesh took an active part in the 1952 language movement. In addition to school-college girls, various members of various women's organizations such as Shishuraksha Samiti, Wari Mahila Samiti, and others actively take part in the 1952 language movement. Therefore, the role of Bengali women in the Bengali language movement was unforgettable. Apart from men, women also acted as supporting forces of the language movement in various ways from their position. Therefore, the idea which Bengali women are just helpless, helpless is not correct. In this article, we have analyzed the role of women in the Bengali language movement.

Does an EMILY's List Endorsement Predict Electoral Success, or Does EMILY Pick the Winners?

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 503-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Hannagan ◽  
Jamie P. Pimlott ◽  
Levente Littvay
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Political Action Committees ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWomen's political action committees (PACs)—those committees founded by women to raise money for women candidates—have been and will likely continue to be an important part of American electoral politics. In this article, we investigate the impact of EMILY's List, because it is the standard bearer of women's PACs and is commonly cited as crucial to women's electoral success. Empirical studies of EMILY's List impact to date have largely assumed causal inference by using traditional linear models. We use a propensity score–matching model to leverage on causality and find that an EMILY endorsement helps some candidates and hurts others. Our findings set the stage for further and more nuanced investigations of when, where, and how EMILY's List can enhance the likelihood of electoral success for women.

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