Name Jennifer Lawless | Role Professor | |
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Books It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office Education Union College, Stanford University | ||
Episode 100 why young people aren t interested in running for office with jennifer l lawless
Jennifer L. Lawless (born March 12, 1975) serves as the current director of the Women & Politics Institute, as well as a Professor of Government at American University.
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- Episode 100 why young people aren t interested in running for office with jennifer l lawless
- Education
- Career
- References
Education
She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. from Union College in 1997; both degrees were in political science. Lawless was hired at American University in the fall of 2009. Before this, Lawless was employed at Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Career
The central focuses of Lawless’s courses and research are women and politics, campaigns, and elections. Courses she has taught at American University include: "Women & Politics," "Women & Political Leadership," and "Women, Politics & Public Policy." Her research regarding female candidates and election results is published in a number of political science journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, and Women & Politics. News outlets regularly quote this scholarship, particularly during campaign season. Her commentary has appeared in newspapers such as, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other local publications. She has also been cited onCNN.com, MSNBC.com, and FOXNews.com and has published on CNN Opinion on CNN.com.
With Richard L. Fox, Lawless is the co-author of three books: "It Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office". "It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office" and "Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics", She is also the author of "Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office", and of multiple Brookings Institution reports, which Emerge America, the Women’s Campaign Forum, and other women’s organizations that recruit female political candidates frequently utilize for their own work.
In 2006, Lawless ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Democratic Primary in Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district. She did not win the primary and has not run in another election. Through her work at the Women & Politics Institute and her position as a board member of Emerge America she remains active in the political arena.