RESEARCH
Christina Wolbrecht


Role Model project, with David E. Campbell. On-going project examines the impact of the presence of female politicians on the political engagement of women and girls.

  • Christina Wolbrecht and David E. Campbell. 2007. "Leading by Example: Female Members of Parliament as Political Role Models." American Journal of Political Science 51(October):921-39.
  • David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht. 2006. "See Jane Run: Women Politicians as Role Models for Adolescents." Journal of Politics 68(May):233-47.

    • Women's Ballots project, with J. Kevin Corder. NSF-funded research using ecological inference techniques to describe and explain women's turnout and vote choice immediately following suffrage extension.

  • Project website (includes data, working papers, and other documentation)
  • J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht. 2006. "Political Context and the Turnout of New Women Voters After Suffrage." Journal of Politics 68(February):34-49.
  • J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht. 2004. "Using Prior Information to Aid Ecological Inference: A Bayesian Approach." In Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies, eds. Gary King, Ori Rosen, and Martin Tanner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Complete book [PDF]

    • Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez, editors. 2008. Political Women and American Democracy: Critical Perspectives on Women and Politics Research. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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    • Christina Wolbrecht and Rodney E. Hero with Peri E. Arnold and Alvin B. Tillery, editors. 2005. The Politics of Democratic Inclusion. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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    • Christina Wolbrecht. 2000. The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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    • Andrew D. Martin and Christina Wolbrecht. 2000. "Partisanship and Pre-floor Behavior: The Equal Rights and School Prayer Amendments." Political Research Quarterly 53(December):711-20.

  • Link to replication and supplementary materials.

    • Robert H. Durr, Andrew D. Martin, and Christina Wolbrecht. 2000. "Ideological Divergence and Public Support for the Supreme Court." American Journal of Political Science 44(October):768-76.

  • Link to replication and supplementary materials.

    • Robert H. Durr, John B. Gilmour, and Christina Wolbrecht. 1997. "Explaining Congressional Approval." American Journal of Political Science 41(January)175-207.

  • Excel97 file, DGW.xls, containing replication data set.
  • Text file, DGWreadme.txt, explaining replication data set.
  • Mark Ramirez (PhD candidate, TAMU) has extended the congressional approval series through 2005. Download capdata.txt for the updated approval series; congapp.rpt for the WCALC output describing the series and component parts; and app_05.xls for the updated survey marginals. Please direct any questions about the updated series to Mark Ramirez at mdramir[at]politics[dot]tamu[dot]edu. [Update 7.25.07]

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