Patterns of Representation

Regina L. Wagner is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. She is the coauthor of The Social Roots of American Politics: A Widening Gyre? (2022), The Long War Over Party Structure: Democratic Representation and Policy Responsiveness in American Politics (2019), and The Analytic History of American Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), and the author of Electoral Patterns in Alabama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Introduction

1 The Politics of Representation

2 Campaigning on Women’s Representation

3 The Messaging Wars

4 Legislating Women’s Representation

5 Women’s Representation at the State Level

6 The “Hillary Factor”? Receptiveness and Electoral Politics

Conclusion: The Patterned Process of Representation