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Abstract:Professor James Stimson points out that elections both influence and change public policy and elections and different political representational bodies produce different types of public policies (Stimson, 1999). Employing Professor Stimson’s empirical findings and logic, this paper explores the multiple elections of an African American female for the types of public policy implications inherent in her electoral victories. Although race is tangentially addressed, the primary focus is on gender, which has been sorely neglected by traditional practitioners of the discipline of political science. Because the study examines the political career of an individual who happens to be an African American female, race becomes a variable, although not the primary variable, due to the inherent nature of the study. |
