Kathleen Dolan, Professor

Office: Bolton Hall, Room 632
Phone: (414) 229-3892
e-mail: kdolan@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 53K)
ANES Panel Proposal Appendix (pdf 59k)

Education:
Ph.D., University of Maryland - College Park
Fields of Study - American Government and Political Behavior
M.A., University of Maryland - College Park
B.A., Providence College, Providence, R.I., Major: Political Science

Teaching Interests:
American Government, Political Behavior, Women and Politics, Research Methods, Congress, Elections and Voting

Research Interests:
Electoral Behavior, Women and Politics, Public Opinion, Political Participation, Legislative Politics, Survey Methodology.

Selected Publications:
Books
Voting for Women: How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates. 2004. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Articles
"Symbolic Mobilization? The Impact of Candidate Sex in American Elections." American Politics Research. (2006).

"Do Women Candidates Play to Gender Stereotypes? Do Men Candidates Play to Women? Candidate Sex and Issue Priorities on Campaign Websites." Political Research Quarterly 58: 31-44. (2005)

"The Impact of Candidate Sex on Evaluations of Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives." in Social Science Quarterly. 85: 206-217. (2004)

"Electoral Context, Issues, and Voting for Women in the 1990s," in Women and Politics, Vol. 23. (2002)

"Knowing Versus Caring: The Role of Affect and Cognition in Political Perception," in Political Psychology, 22:27-44. (2001)

"Voting for Women in the Year of the Woman," in American Journal of Political Science, 42:272-293. (1998)

"Change and Continuity Among Women State Legislators: Evidence From Three Decades," with Lynne E. Ford in Political Research Quarterly, 50:137-151. (1997) (First Author)

"Gender Differences in Support for Women Candidates: Is There a Glass Ceiling in American Politics?" in Women and Politics, 17:27-41. (1997)

Book Chapters
"Women Voters, Women Candidates: Is there a gender gap in support for women candidates?" in The Gender Gap: Voting and the Sexes, Lois Duke Whitaker (ed.), University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2007.

"Women Candidates in American Politics: The Continuing Impact of Sex and Gender" in Political Women and American Democracy, Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, Lisa Baldez (eds.), forthcoming 2007.