All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for Us Women

by Kaitlin Sidorsky

Speaking of cabinet appointments he'd made as governor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously spoke of having "whole binders full of women" to consider. The line was much mocked; and yet, Kaitlin Sidorsky suggests, it raises a point long overlooked in discussions of the gender gap in politics: many more women are appointed, rather than elected, to political office. Analyzing an original survey of political appointments at all levels of state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700627863
• ISBN13: 9780700627868
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"