Joanne Connor Green
Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University
Chapter Member: Dallas-Fort Worth SSN
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About Joanne
Green's primary research area involves the role of gender in American politics - specifically the disparate manner in which the public evaluates male and female candidates involved in political scandals and; more broadly; the relationship between gender and political representation. Green teaches classes in both political science and women and gender studies; and has served as department chair of both academic departments.
Contributions
How Women Legislators Help States Become More Supportive of Older Citizens
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Publications
"Countervailing Influences of Black and Women Legislators on State Age Friendliness" (with ). Research in the Sociology of Health Care 31 (2012): 235-259.
Finds that, controlling for the most prominent alternative factors generally shaping state orientations and policies, women legislators are selectively supportive of dimensions of state elderly friendliness, but African-American legislators do not share this support.
"Do Women Legislators Have a Positive Effect on the Supportiveness of States toward Older Citizens?" (with ). Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 33, no. 1 (2012): 38-64.
Shows how increasing women’s legislative presence is likely to better enable states to meet the needs of growing numbers of ever more aged citizens.