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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Elected Office"”.
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Ambition to Run: Women Veterans Pursuing Elected Office
… who anticipated running for state or federal office within the next 10 years. The aim of this study was to utilize the evidence produced on female veterans’ political ambition to develop an education curriculum that could be utilized to recruit and educate more women veterans to run for …
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The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions
… remain underrepresented across every level of elected office in the United States. More than 30 years after the supposed “Year of the Woman,” women hold less than 30% of the elected positions in local, state, and federal office. In the past, researchers attributed the paucity of women in office …
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Is There A Nurse In The House? Or The Senate? Barriers And Facilitators To Pursuing Elected Office
… train, motivate, and support nurses to pursue elected office.Purpose: This project sought to identify the barriers to and facilitators of nurses’ pursuit of elected office and to use this information to develop methods to recruit, train, motivate, and support registered nurses to run for …
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The Time Is Now: Empowering Nurses In Electoral Politics
… to politics, very few nurses serve in political office in the United States. Resources such as a candidate training program that capitalizes on nurses' particular skills to prepare and assist them to run for elected office are practically nonexistent.A Campaign School for Nurses and Midwives was …
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Wa’U Hanga: the Rise of Native American Women Who Pursue Elected State Office
… topic of this analysis involves the pursuit of elected office by Native American women. Unfortunately, there are a disproportionately smaller number of Native American women who are represented in municipal, state, and federal government. In a culturally diverse world, it is important that there …
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Uncovering Typologies of Civically Engaged Latinx/a/o College Graduates
… as cultural and political resources, and run for elected office. I also identified five typologies, or classes, of civically engaged Latinx/a/o college graduates: Activistas, Mentores, Politicos, Votantes, and Indiferentes. This study sought to address analytical and methodological shortcomings in …
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Women as Party Leaders: Are the Barriers Partisan?
… Research suggests that there are fewer women in elected office because of a lack of supply, or qualified and willing women, or a lack of demand, an electorate willing to vote for a woman. This study seeks to understand the levels of participation of women as party delegates in state party …
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Nurse State Legislators: The Journey to State Capitols
… since the 19th century, few nurses have pursued elected office at the state or national level. In 2000, approximately 100 nurses held political office, representing 0.005% of the total two million registered nurses (Feldman & Lewenson, 2000). Eleven years later, less than 100 nurses are serving …
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WHEN CHURCH BECOMES STATE: CLERGY AS POLITICAL CANDIDATE
… the experiences of clergy who have run for elected office. Previous research has examined the political behavior of clergy and why those in other professions have run for office. This dissertation is the first study of clergy who have run for office. I find that most of the interviewees view …
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Dismantling the Patriarchy One "Pinkie Promise" At a Time: Women, Vicarious Learning and Female Politicians As Role Models
… norms of who should occupy the presidential office, will be successful in inspiring a new generation of women to not only seek elected office, but also to lend support to and vote for female candidates? This dissertation looked to examine how the recent increase in well-known female …
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An exploration of statelessness in Namibia: The significance of legal citizenship
… same law prevents them from being appointed as elected office-bearers. The study recommends that further research be done to establish cases of statelessness within the undocumented population, focusing on lived experiences of undocumented persons. The study provides an important opportunity to …
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Gendered governing: Leadership experiences of seven women former governors
… women have become highly visible candidates for office on a national level. Since 1925, 31 women have served as governors; 20 were elected to office, three replaced their husbands, and eight became governor by Constitutional succession (CAWP, 2012). Many women of the Third Wave generation, or …
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Lucius B. Swift, Hoosier reformer of the progressive era
… reform in Indianapolis. While never assuming an elected office, he worked for the advancement of Indianapolis as an autonomous entity free from the controls of the General Assembly and strove to inform citizens of backsliding politicians. Only after World War I did Swift assume a public office as …
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How do Minnesota School Board members learn to do their jobs?
… function as volunteer or lowly-compensated elected bodies whose members are not professionally trained for their jobs, yet the public demands accountability and results from their local public school districts. This descriptive study examined how a random sample of 322 Minnesota school board …