Professor Kira Sanbonmatsu Office: 3 rd Fl., Eagleton sanbon@rci.rutgers.edu 732-932-9384 ext. 265 Office Hours: Thurs. 3:00-4:00 p.m. Class: Thur. 12:00-2:40 p.m. and by appt. (3 rd Fl., Eagleton) Location: Eagleton Conference Rm. Fall 2013 Advanced Topics in Women and Politics Gender, Race, and the American Party System 16:790:596:01 Description: This course examines party scholarship related to race/ethnicity and gender. How do studies of gender, race, and ethnicity intersect with party scholarship? We will consider whether attention to gender and race/ethnicity can contribute to party theory and debate the usefulness of party scholarship for understanding gender/race/ethnic politics. We will ask if gender and race issues have been incorporated into the U.S. party system, under what conditions, and with what consequences, and whether the major parties help or hinder representation for women and racial/ethnic minorities. Do race/ethnicity and/or gender drive U.S. party politics? Are race and gender issues excluded from party politics? Do race and gender compete with party to organize American politics? We will compare gender with race and investigate the intersection of gender and race. We will primarily focus on the most recent scholarship related to parties, race, and gender. Requirements: Please write three short papers over the course of the semester. These three reaction papers (4-5 pages in length) are due at the start of class for that week s readings (please bring a hard copy). In your reaction papers, please do not summarize the readings; instead, use the papers to make an argument. Your reaction paper can critique one or more readings and/or suggest future directions for research; or it can propose a specific research question or design that is related to the week s readings. Your final paper should take the form of a research paper or research design paper. The majority of your grade is based on the final paper; the remainder of your grade will be based on your reaction papers and participation in seminar. The final paper is due Wednesday Dec. 18 at noon. (Please note that I do not give incompletes.) A 3 to 5 page proposal for your final paper is due on or before our class on Oct. 3. Please plan to provide a brief in-class presentation about your final paper on Tues. Nov. 26. Required Books: * Marty Cohen et al. 2008. The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * Jo Freeman. 2002. A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1
* Paul Frymer. 2010. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. * Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee. 2011. Why Americans Don t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate. Princeton: Princeton University Press. * Corrine M. McConnaughy. Forthcoming 2013. The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment. Cambridge University Press. * Tracy Osborn. 2012. How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislatures. New York: Oxford University Press. * Michele L. Swers. 2013. Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * Janelle S. Wong. 2006. Democracy s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. The books are on order at the Rutgers University/Barnes and Noble Bookstore (732-867-0113) and at NJ Books (37 Easton Ave., 732-253-7666). They are also on reserve at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library. All other readings listed on this syllabus will be available on the Sakai system. Please come to our seminar prepared and ready to discuss and debate the readings. If you have not already done so, please familiarize yourself with the university s policy on plagiarism: http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/policy-on-academic-integrity Week 1 September 5 Introduction and Organizational Meeting 1. Stokes, Susan. 1999. Political Parties and Democracy. Annual Review of Political Science 2: 243-267. 2. Noel, Hans. 2010. Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties. In The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups, Eds. L. Sandy Maisel and Jeffrey M. Berry. New York: Oxford University Press. 57-76. Week 2 September 12 Race and Party Competition 1. Frymer, Paul. 2010. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2. Feinstein, Brian D., and Eric Schickler. 2008. Platforms and Partners: the Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered. Studies in American Political Development 22 (1): 1-31. Week 3 September 19 Women in Party Politics 1. Freeman, Jo. 2002. A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2. Freeman, Jo. 1987. Whom You Know versus Whom You Represent: Feminist Influence in the Democratic and Republican Parties. In The Women s Movements of the United 2
States and Western Europe: Consciousness, Political Opportunity, and Public Policy, ed. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Carol McClurg Mueller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 215-244. Week 4 September 26 Parties and Immigrant Incorporation 1. Wong, Janelle S. 2006. Democracy s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. Week 5 October 3 Race, Immigration and Partisanship 1. Hajnal, Zoltan, and Taeku Lee. 2011. Why Americans Don t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate. Princeton: Princeton University Press. * Deadline to submit a proposal for the final research paper * Week 6 October 10 Partisan Stereotypes 1. Huddy, Leonie, and Nadya Terkildsen. 1993. Gender Stereotypes and the Perception of Male and Female Candidates. American Journal of Political Science 37 (February): 119-147. 2. Koch, Jeffrey W. 2000. Do Citizens Apply Gender Stereotypes to Infer Candidates Ideological Orientations? Journal of Politics 62 (May): 414-429. 3. King, David C., and Richard E. Matland. 2003. Sex and the Grand Old Party: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Candidate Sex on Support for a Republican Candidate. American Politics Research 31 (November): 595-612. 4. Sigelman, Carol K., Lee Sigelman, Barbara J. Walkosz, and Michael Nitz. 1995. Black Candidates, White Voters: Understanding Racial Bias in Political Perceptions. American Journal of Political Science 39 (1): 243-65. 5. McConnaughy, Corrine M., Ismail K. White, and Emily Lynch. N.d. Identity Politics Complicated: White Womanhood and the 2008 Election. Week 7 October 17 Gender, Party, and Campaigns 1. Dittmar, Kelly. 2012. Campaigns as Gendered Institutions: Stereotypes and Strategy in Statewide Races. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University. Available electronically through Rutgers Libraries: http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/etd/ Week 8 October 24 Gender, Parties, and Electoral Behavior 1. Kaufmann, Karen M. 2002. Culture Wars, Secular Realignment, and the Gender Gap in Party Identification. Political Behavior 24 (September): 283-307. 3
2. Norris, Pippa. 2003. The Gender Gap: Old Challenges, New Approaches. In Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions, ed. Susan J. Carroll. New York: Oxford University Press, 146-170. 3. Hutchings, Vincent L., Valentino, Nicholas A., Philpot, Tasha S., White, Ismail K. 2004. The Compassion Strategy: Race and the Gender Gap in Campaign 2000. Public Opinion Quarterly 68 (winter): 512-541. 4. Kellstedt, Paul M., David A. M. Peterson, and Mark D. Ramirez. 2010. The Macro Politics of a Gender Gap. Public Opinion Quarterly 74 (Fall): 477-498. Week 9 October 31 Gender and Legislative Behavior I 1. Osborn, Tracy. 2012. How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislatures. New York: Oxford University Press 2. Volden, Craig, Alan E. Wiseman, and Dana E. Wittmer. 2012. When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? American Journal of Political Science 57 (April): 326-341. Week 10 November 7 Where s the Party? Presidential Nominations 1. Cohen, Marty, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2008. The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Week 11 November 14 Gender, Parties and Candidacy 1. Niven, David. 1998. Party Elites and Women Candidates: The Shape of Bias. Women & Politics 19 (2): 57-80. 2. Burrell, Barbara C. 1993. Party Decline, Party Transformation and Gender Politics: the USA. In Gender and Party Politics, ed. Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris. London: Sage Publications, 291-308. 3. Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2009. Party Strength and Activity and Women s Political Representation at the Local Level. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 4. Fox, Richard L., and Jennifer L. Lawless. 2010. If Only They d Ask: Gender, Recruitment, and Political Ambition. Journal of Politics 72: 310-326. 5. Baer, Denise L. 2013. Welcome to the Party? Leadership, Ambition, and Support Among Elites. In Women & Executive Office: Pathways and Performance, Ed. Melody Rose. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 181-207. 4
Week 12 November 21 Gender and Legislative Behavior II 1. Swers, Michele L. 2013. Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2. Kanthak, Kristin, and George A. Krause. 2010. Valuing Diversity in Political Organizations: Gender and Token Minorities in the U.S. House of Representatives. American Journal of Political Science 54 (October): 839-854. Week 13 November 26 Individual Presentations * Note that November 26 is a TUESDAY * (Rutgers has designated that Thursday classes will be held on Tuesday Nov. 26.) Week 14 December 5 Gender and Parties: The Case of Woman Suffrage 1. McConnaughy, Corrine M. Forthcoming 2013. The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment. Cambridge University Press. * Final Papers * Final papers are due Wednesday Dec. 18 at noon. 5