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"This book compares British, French, and American legislative debates on woman suffrage and women's rights. Beginning with an analysis of Tocqueville and J.S. Mill on the impact of suffrage, the book continues with analysis of floor debates, comparing gender style, the French on parity and the Americans on the ERA and concluding with modern debates"--

"During presidential elections a quadrennial debate emerges which, although it differs in the particulars, reflects the same structure in each reincarnation. Although the issue positions taken by the candidates vary over the years, their claim to qualification for the presidency follows a common pattern. Each candidate discusses his or her prior experience as preparation for one or more of the requirements of the office and then lays claim to the legacy of one of the great presidents who followed the same trajectory to the White House.Missing from this debate is a systematic analysis of how different job experiences prepared the population of all presidents for service. For each of the greats who followed a particular pathway to the presidents there is a failure who shared the pathway. In this book I combine the quantitative evaluation of presidential performance with mixture of qualitative and quantitative analyses of professional qualifications. The recent C-SPAN surveys provide us with a nuanced measure of presidential performance by asking historians to rate the Presidents on ten constituent attributes of: Public Persuasion, Moral Authority, Relations with Congress, Performance within Context of Times, Crisis Leadership, International Relations, Vision/Setting an Agenda, Economic Management, Administrative Skills, and Pursued Equal Justice for All. The sub-score for 'Relations with Congress' measures how well the president performs as 'legislator-in-chief' so that I can see whether former legislators work better with congress. Similarly the measure of 'Administrative Skills' indicates whether experience as a governor leads to better performance as the national chief executive. The evaluation of 'Economic Management' looks at whether those presidents with business experience do a better job in dealing with the economy. C-SPAN's nuanced measure of presidential performance allows a more careful evaluation of how prior experience affects particular aspects of presidential greatness than was previously possible"--, "Presidential hopefuls frequently claim they are qualified because their job experience is the same as a great president. However they ignore the failed presidents who shared the same pathway. This book evaluates all the presidents systematically to determine how prior professional experience influences presidential performance"--

Paulson's timely and authoritative study incorporates the latest data from the 2000 and 2004 elections into his analysis, and it offers vital perspectives on the outlook for the 2008 election.--(Source of description unspecified.)

Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing on data provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, the authors summarize, track, and evaluate changes in the gender and ethnic makeup of academic and nonacademic employees at private and public colleges and universities from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Separate chapters assess changes in employment opportunities for white women, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non-elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions. The authors also examine differences in hiring practices between public and private colleges and universities. Kul B. Rai is a professor of political science at Southern Connecticut State University. His works include "America in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Domestic Politics". John W. Critzer is a professor of political science at Southern Connecticut State University., "Affirmative Action and the University is the only full-length study to examine the impact of affirmative action on all higher education hiring practices. Drawing on data provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, the authors summarize, track, and evaluate changes in the gender and ethnic makeup of academic and non-academic employees at private and public colleges and universities from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Separate chapters assess changes in employment opportunities for white women, blacks Asian, Hispanics, and Native Americans." "The authors look at the extent to which a two-tier employment system exists. In such a system minorities and women are more likely to make their greatest gains in non elite positions rather than in faculty and administrative positions. The authors also examine differences in hiring practices between public and private colleges and universities."--Jacket.

In this richly detailed study Harriet B. Applewhite analyzes the political alignment and loyalties of the deputies elected to the Estates General/National Assembly between 1789 and 1791. Her purpose is to understand how these men shaped the struggle that transformed France's constitutional structure and invented its modern political practices., To gauge the deputies' political alignments, Applewhite establishes categories based on their voting records, club memberships, signatures on protest lists, assessments by contemporary observers, and other evidence. She then arranges on a left-to-right scale all 1,318 of these individuals. For a selected group of deputies she uses published political pamphlets and biographical records not only to assess and compare their attitudes on issues concerning political legitimacy and political participation but also to establish and analyze connections between these attitudes and actual political behavior., Applewhite's investigation focuses on the origins of the deputies' understanding of French national unity, the nature and basis of the fierce partisan battles that raged in the National Assembly, and the changes in political institutions and practices that were handed down to postrevolutionary France. Contrary to the converging-elites theory popular among many students of the French Revolution, Applewhite finds that membership in one of the three estates of the Old Regime - the clergy, the aristocracy, and the commonalty - channeled the early careers of future deputies, their subsequent political opportunities, and their responses to the power struggles of the National Assembly., Applewhite defines two key legacies of the first National Assembly for the future of French legislative politics: first, a reluctance to compromise and an absence of trust that developed among participants at the outset and hardened throughout the twenty-eight months of the assembly; second, the development of a left, center, and right political culture within the National Assembly and a style of conflict that pulled both leaders and followers away from the center. This meticulously researched and carefully written work makes a significant and lasting contribution to the study of the French Revolution and points to new avenues of inquiry.--(Source of description unspecified.)