TY - JOUR
AU - Kauffman, Craig M.
AB - BOOK REVIEWS | 365 In addition to their abundance of data on legislative activities, Lazarus and Steigerwalt draw upon more than 20 interviews with former and current members of Congress and staff to investigate their claims of legislator perceptions of vulnerability. These interviews suggest they are on the right track, but they are limited in proving in a more robust way that congresswomen broadly feel more electorally vulnerable than their male colleagues. Recent interviews with 83 congresswomen in A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perceptions on Why Their Presence Matters (by Kelly Dittmar, Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll) provide additional evidence to back up this claim, finding that congresswomen both identify campaigns as one of the most significant challenges they confront and report that they still feel the need to work harder than their male colleagues to prove that they belong in what remains a male‐dominated institution. Lazarus and Steigerwalt have contributed valuable data and a strong theoretical frame by which to evaluate women’s legislative behavior. Their work opens the door to other tests of their theory that integrate more qualitative evidence and interrogate potential differences in perceptions, motivation, and behavior among women—especially looking at intersections of gender 
TI - Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us Thor Hogan. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 440 pp. $59.95.
JO - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.1002/polq.12924
DA - 2019-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/hydrocarbon-nation-how-energy-security-made-our-nation-great-and-tdG4dIWH66
SP - 365
EP - 367
VL - 134
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -