New England Journal of Public Policy Volume 22 Article 5 Issue 1 Special Issue: Women 3-21-2007 Women in New England Politics Paige Ransford University of Massachusetts Boston,
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[email protected]. Women in New England Politics Women in New England Politics Paige Ransford, Carol Hardy-Fanta, and Anne Marie Cammisa This essay addresses a serious deficiency in the literature on women and politics in the United States today: the lack of attention to regional varia- tion and, more specifically, the absence of research on women’s representa- tion in New England. This deficiency is particularly troubling since political analysts of all stripes typically portray New England as imbued with ideo- logical, individual, and structural characteristics likely to lead to rates of political representation higher than the nation as a whole.