Mass Political Participation and Behavior, Political Parties and Elections (Western Europe and the United States), Comparative Political Movements, Electoral Systems and Representation, Women and Politics (Western Europe and the United States), and Research Methods. |
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karen.beckwith@case.edu
Mather House 223
Phone (216) 368-4129
Fax (216) 368-4681
Karen Beckwith received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky
(1972) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University (1977, 1982). Teaching
primarily in the areas of US politics, political movements, and women, gender,
and politics, she has special interests in the United States and West Europe,
particularly Britain and Italy.
Professor Beckwith's recent publications include
Political Women and American
Democracy, with co-editors Christina Wolbrecht and Lisa Baldez (Cambridge
University Press, 2008); "Sheer Numbers: Critical Representation Thresholds and
Women's Political Representation," with Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, Perspectives
on Politics, 5 (3), September 2007: 555-567; "Mapping Strategic Engagements
of Women's Movements," International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9 (3),
September 2007; and "Numbers and Newness: The Descriptive and Substantive
Representation of Women," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 40 (1),
March 2007: 27-49.
Professor Beckwith is the founding editor, with Lisa Baldez (Dartmouth College),
of Politics & Gender, the journal of the Women and Politics Research
Section of the American Political Science Association. She has also been
co-editor of the Gender and Politics Series of the Oxford University Press, and
served as President of the American Political Science Association's Women and
Politics Research Section. Author of numerous scholarly articles, she is the
co-editor of Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (Cambridge,
2003) and author of American Women and Political Participation (Greenwood
Press, 1986).
Curriculum Vitae
Courses
Toward A Comparative Politics of Gender: Conference Papers
Toward A Comparative Politics of Gender: APSA Papers
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