Eileen Mcdonagh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Mcdonagh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonagh |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONAGH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad del Noreste |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The perception of competence in the newsroom: Why stereotypical dress styles violate Title VII
Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace “because of sex.” Once on the job, however, courts allow employers to impose trait discrimination policies on employees, including sex stereotypical ones. Based on a survey experiment, we found that sex stereotyped dress styles for women—defined by bright colors, long hair, excessive make-up in contrast to dark suits, ties, and short hair cuts for men—sexualize women, thereby undermining vie…
Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal
J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht's superb, award-winning book provides a masterly account of voting after the addition of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (The book won the 2017 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics.) They focus on turnout and voting choices of men and women by merging election returns with census information for ten states representing di…
The Family-State Nexus in American Political Development: Explaining Women’s Political Citizenship
The United States was a suffrage pioneer for eliminating restrictions based on class and race, but not for prohibiting the use of sex classifications as a voting qualification. This contribution focuses on the relationship between the family and the state to explain this discrepancy. In the context of America’s liberal heritage, the family and the state are separated by virtue of being ruled by opposite principles: parental rule versus political …
Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State
Before the welfare state, people were protected from disabilities resulting from illness, old age, and other infirmities by care work provided within the family. When the state assumes responsibility for care-work tasks, in effect it assumes parental roles, thereby becoming a form offamilial governmentin which the public provision of goods and services is analogous to care work provided in the family. My research pushes back the origins of the st…
Gender and the State: Accommodating Difference and Equality
Most would concur that the American state, from its very founding and still today, builds upon liberal principles asserting the fundamental equality of all individuals. What is more, social movements have been successful in demanding that the state treat all individuals the same “in spite of” their group differences, thereby promoting the inclusion of people initially discriminated against on the basis of their group difference. This is no small …
It Takes a State: A Policy Feedback Model of Women's Political Representation
American women attain more professional success in medicine, business, and higher education than do most of their counterparts around the world. An enduring puzzle is, therefore, why the US lags so far behind other countries when it comes to women's political representation. In 2008, women held only 16.8 percent of seats in the House of Representatives, a proportion that ranks America lower than 83 other countries. This article addresses this con…
Adding consent to choice in the abortion debate
Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox
This research challenges models of democratization that claim liberal principles affirming the equality of rights-bearing individuals equably enhance the political inclusion of groups marginalized by race, class, or gender. While such explanations may suffice for race and class, this study's quantitative cross-national analysis of women's contemporary officeholding patterns establishes that gender presents a counter case whereby women's political…
Breaking the Abortion Deadlock? Twenty-Five Years After Roe v. Wade
A quarter-century has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973. In recognition of the intense debates that continue to surround the question of abortion rights, the editors present the following forum, based on Eileen McDonagh's recent book, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock, published by Oxford University Press. The discussion was first presented at the 1997 Meetings of the American Political Science Association in Washington…
The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective
This special section of Social Science History launches a series of five articles illustrative of what we believe is an eclectic center in the development of historical studies of institutions and policies, often termed the “new institutionalism.” The new institutionalism emerged in the early 1980s in reaction to “a long season in which social forces and processes were the predominant topics of study” (Orren and Skowronek 1986). While the precise…
The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective
The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government, by Joseph M. Bessette
The Common Space of Social Science Inquiry
Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court: What's wrong and How to Fix It
Conference Panel: The Intellectual Legacy of the Johns Hopkins Seminary of History and Politics: Reconsidering the Genealogy of the Social Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Good, Bad, and Captive Samaritans: Adding-In Pregnancy and Consent to the Abortion Debate
This paper adds-in pregnancy and consent to the abortion debate in the context of good samaritan arguments initiated by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Drawing upon legal and medical definitions, the abortion issue is reframed as the right of a woman to consent to what will be done to her body by the fetus rather than her right merely to choose what to do with her own body. This argument shifts abortion rights from the right to decisional autonomy establi…
Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women
Kathleen Jones takes up some of the most central debates in contemporary feminist analysis: the nature of the categories of feminist theory; the development of alternative interpretative strategies; and the position of authority in feminist theory and practice. She engages with postmodernist feminism, the writings of feminists of colour, and textual strategies of film theory, to challenge conventional formulations of authority in modern political…
Hard Choices, Lost Voices: How the Abortion Conflict Has Divided America, Distorted Constitutional Rights and Damaged the Courts, by Donald P. Judges
In a powerful indictment of the battle over abortion rights, Mr. Judges charges that the conflict has divided society, distorted constitutional rights, and damaged the courts. Thoughtful, balanced...a welcome antidote to the emotional rhetoric that has polarized abortion debates in the U.S. This book issues a clarion call for a new approach to the issue. - Nadine Strossen
The “Welfare Rights State” and the “Civil Rights State”: Policy Paradox and State Building in the Progressive Era
An enduring contribution of the new institutionalism is its affirmation of the significance of the Progressive era. As a result, we have learned not only how the “big bang” explosion of welfare legislation in the New Deal rests upon structures and precedents set in the early twentieth-century decades, but also how this early reform period continues to influence contemporary policies and politics. Alan Dawley, Bruce Ackerman, and Morton Keller, fo…
On the Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America
Preface Introduction: Individualism, Civic Virtue, and Gender Part I: English Origins 1. On the Man Question 2. On the Woman Question 3. On the Youth Question Part II: Locke's Legacy 4. Fathers and Sons 5. Citizens and the State 6. Women and Warriors Part III: Engendered Virtue 7. In Search of Fathers 8. In Search of Fraternity 9. The Keepers of Civic Virtue 10. Martial Virtue Conclusion: Fortune Is a Man Notes Index
Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives
Journal Article Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives. Ed. by Roger H. Davidson and Richard C. Sachs. (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991. xxii + 244 pp. $11.00, ISBN 0-16-035728-4.) Get access Eileen L. McDonagh Eileen L. McDonagh Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1717–1718, https://doi.org/10.2…
Good, bad, and captive Samaritans: Adding-in pregnancy and consent to the abortion debate
Constituency Influence on House Roll-Call Votes in the Progressive Era, 1913-1915
This research reviews techniques for measuring constituency opinion in policy congruence analyses. It introduces a new use of referenda votes for investigation of state-national policy linkages in the Progressive Era. Findings demonstrate the importance of constituency opinion and of regional and partisan influences in nationalizing major legislation in three policy areas: labor, woman suffrage, and prohibition. Analysis of historical congruency …
Electoral Bases of Policy Innovation in the Progressive Era: The Impact of Grass-Root Opinion on Roll-Call Voting in the House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, 1913–1915
The 1900–1920 decades of the Progressive Era constitute a seminal period in American political history, evinced by successful invocation of government authority to contend with consequences of life in an urban, industrial, multicultural society. Legislative precedents established at the state and national level used public power to meet the needs of citizens unable individually to defend themselves against social and economic problems stemming fr…
Representative Democracy and State Building in the Progressive Era
I draw upon state-building and legislative literatures to investigate how constituency-based representative institutions in the Progressive Era nationalized innovative public policies, thereby expanding the authority of the federal government as a component of the modern American state developing at that time. Using state-level referenda votes as measures of grassroots views, multivariate analysis discloses the impact of district opinion, as well…
Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox
This research challenges models of democratization that claim liberal principles affirming the equality of rights-bearing individuals equably enhance the political inclusion of groups marginalized by race, class, or gender. While such explanations may suffice for race and class, this study's quantitative cross-national analysis of women's contemporary officeholding patterns establishes that gender presents a counter case whereby women's political…
Woman Suffrage in the Progressive Era: Patterns of Opposition and Support in Referenda Voting, 1910-1918
Sources of opposition and support for woman suffrage are analyzed with the use of the responses of male voters to constitutional referenda held in six key states during the Progressive era. Traditional axes of opposition and support for suffrage are examined, establishing that stable sources of suffrage support originate most often from Protestant and northern European constituencies (with the exception of Germans), whereas southern Europeans and…
Representative Democracy and State Building in the Progressive Era
I draw upon state-building and legislative literatures to investigate how constituency-based representative institutions in the Progressive Era nationalized innovative public policies, thereby expanding the authority of the federal government as a component of the modern American state developing at that time. Using state-level referenda votes as measures of grassroots views, multivariate analysis discloses the impact of district opinion, as well…
It Takes a State: A Policy Feedback Model of Women's Political Representation
American women attain more professional success in medicine, business, and higher education than do most of their counterparts around the world. An enduring puzzle is, therefore, why the US lags so far behind other countries when it comes to women's political representation. In 2008, women held only 16.8 percent of seats in the House of Representatives, a proportion that ranks America lower than 83 other countries. This article addresses this con…
To Work or Not to Work: The Differential Impact of Achieved and Derived Status upon the Political Participation of Women, 1956-1976
This research investigates the current explanation that it is the increased employment of women that has resulted in their increased political participation. Measures of achieved status, based on the occupational prestige of one's own job and only applicable to employed men and women, and derived status, based on the occupational prestige of one's spouse's job and applicable to housewives, were used to examine the interaction effects of social st…
Constituency Influence on House Roll-Call Votes in the Progressive Era, 1913-1915
This research reviews techniques for measuring constituency opinion in policy congruence analyses. It introduces a new use of referenda votes for investigation of state-national policy linkages in the Progressive Era. Findings demonstrate the importance of constituency opinion and of regional and partisan influences in nationalizing major legislation in three policy areas: labor, woman suffrage, and prohibition. Analysis of historical congruency …
Issues and Constituencies in the Progressive Era: House Roll Call Voting on the Nineteenth Amendment, 1913-1919
This paper examines House roll call voting patterns on the Nineteenth Amendment in the context of Progressive Era legislation, particularly Prohibition, immigration, black civil rights, labor, and military preparedness. Though historical accounts often have linked woman suffrage with arguments of "expediency" rather than "rights," this analysis finds roll call voting patterns on suffrage associated with social justice and civil rights rather than…
Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State
Before the welfare state, people were protected from disabilities resulting from illness, old age, and other infirmities by care work provided within the family. When the state assumes responsibility for care-work tasks, in effect it assumes parental roles, thereby becoming a form offamilial governmentin which the public provision of goods and services is analogous to care work provided in the family. My research pushes back the origins of the st…
Attitude Changes and Paradigm Shifts: Social Psychological Foundations of the Kuhnian Thesis
A little more than ten years ago the provocative book by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, was published, setting off debates within the disciplines of philosophy of science, history of science, and the social sciences which continue to this day.' It can be argued that Kuhn wrote the book as a direct challenge to the traditional explanations of science offered by philosophers of science. And, indeed, the typology of criticisms…
The Common Space of Social Science Inquiry
Conference Panel: The Intellectual Legacy of the Johns Hopkins Seminary of History and Politics: Reconsidering the Genealogy of the Social Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The “Welfare Rights State” and the “Civil Rights State”: Policy Paradox and State Building in the Progressive Era
An enduring contribution of the new institutionalism is its affirmation of the significance of the Progressive era. As a result, we have learned not only how the “big bang” explosion of welfare legislation in the New Deal rests upon structures and precedents set in the early twentieth-century decades, but also how this early reform period continues to influence contemporary policies and politics. Alan Dawley, Bruce Ackerman, and Morton Keller, fo…
Electoral Bases of Policy Innovation in the Progressive Era: The Impact of Grass-Root Opinion on Roll-Call Voting in the House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, 1913–1915
The 1900–1920 decades of the Progressive Era constitute a seminal period in American political history, evinced by successful invocation of government authority to contend with consequences of life in an urban, industrial, multicultural society. Legislative precedents established at the state and national level used public power to meet the needs of citizens unable individually to defend themselves against social and economic problems stemming fr…
Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal
J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht's superb, award-winning book provides a masterly account of voting after the addition of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (The book won the 2017 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics.) They focus on turnout and voting choices of men and women by merging election returns with census information for ten states representing di…
The Family-State Nexus in American Political Development: Explaining Women’s Political Citizenship
The United States was a suffrage pioneer for eliminating restrictions based on class and race, but not for prohibiting the use of sex classifications as a voting qualification. This contribution focuses on the relationship between the family and the state to explain this discrepancy. In the context of America’s liberal heritage, the family and the state are separated by virtue of being ruled by opposite principles: parental rule versus political …
Adding consent to choice in the abortion debate
The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective
Social Exchange and Moral Development: Dimensions of Self, Self-Image, and Identity
This paper argues that the exchange theories of sociological utilitarianism should be combined with ethical theories premised on the intrinsic value of human life in order to understand more completely the components of human interaction. This is necessary because each theory relies on a distinct social-psychological dimension of human behavior: ethical theories explicate the concept of the "self," which psychologically functions as evidence that…
Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court: What's wrong and How to Fix It
The significance of the nineteenth amendment: A new look at civil rights, social welfare, and woman suffrage alignments in the progressive era
Attitude Changes and Paradigm Shifts: Social Psychological Foundations of the Kuhnian Thesis
A little more than ten years ago the provocative book by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, was published, setting off debates within the disciplines of philosophy of science, history of science, and the social sciences which continue to this day.' It can be argued that Kuhn wrote the book as a direct challenge to the traditional explanations of science offered by philosophers of science. And, indeed, the typology of criticisms…
Social Exchange and Moral Development: Dimensions of Self, Self-Image, and Identity
This paper argues that the exchange theories of sociological utilitarianism should be combined with ethical theories premised on the intrinsic value of human life in order to understand more completely the components of human interaction. This is necessary because each theory relies on a distinct social-psychological dimension of human behavior: ethical theories explicate the concept of the "self," which psychologically functions as evidence that…
To Work or Not to Work: The Differential Impact of Achieved and Derived Status upon the Political Participation of Women, 1956-1976
This research investigates the current explanation that it is the increased employment of women that has resulted in their increased political participation. Measures of achieved status, based on the occupational prestige of one's own job and only applicable to employed men and women, and derived status, based on the occupational prestige of one's spouse's job and applicable to housewives, were used to examine the interaction effects of social st…
Woman Suffrage in the Progressive Era: Patterns of Opposition and Support in Referenda Voting, 1910-1918
Sources of opposition and support for woman suffrage are analyzed with the use of the responses of male voters to constitutional referenda held in six key states during the Progressive era. Traditional axes of opposition and support for suffrage are examined, establishing that stable sources of suffrage support originate most often from Protestant and northern European constituencies (with the exception of Germans), whereas southern Europeans and…
Sex Differences in Political Participation: Processes of Change in Fourteen Nations
Issues and Constituencies in the Progressive Era: House Roll Call Voting on the Nineteenth Amendment, 1913-1919
This paper examines House roll call voting patterns on the Nineteenth Amendment in the context of Progressive Era legislation, particularly Prohibition, immigration, black civil rights, labor, and military preparedness. Though historical accounts often have linked woman suffrage with arguments of "expediency" rather than "rights," this analysis finds roll call voting patterns on suffrage associated with social justice and civil rights rather than…
The Significance of the Nineteenth Amendment: A New Look at Civil Rights, Social Welfare, and Woman Suffrage Alignments in the Progressive Era
The significance of the Nineteenth Amendment for contemporary gender gap politics, and for its own Progressive Era time period, is investigated by analyzing votes for woman suffrage in the House of Representatives in relation to civil rights, civil liberties, and social welfare legislation. A major conclusion is that the woman suffrage issue was connected to civil rights concerns for the duration of its legislative history, which seriously calls …
The significance of the nineteenth amendment: A new look at civil rights, social welfare, and woman suffrage alignments in the progressive era
Electoral Bases of Policy Innovation in the Progressive Era: The Impact of Grass-Root Opinion on Roll-Call Voting in the House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, 1913–1915
The 1900–1920 decades of the Progressive Era constitute a seminal period in American political history, evinced by successful invocation of government authority to contend with consequences of life in an urban, industrial, multicultural society. Legislative precedents established at the state and national level used public power to meet the needs of citizens unable individually to defend themselves against social and economic problems stemming fr…
Representative Democracy and State Building in the Progressive Era
I draw upon state-building and legislative literatures to investigate how constituency-based representative institutions in the Progressive Era nationalized innovative public policies, thereby expanding the authority of the federal government as a component of the modern American state developing at that time. Using state-level referenda votes as measures of grassroots views, multivariate analysis discloses the impact of district opinion, as well…
The “Welfare Rights State” and the “Civil Rights State”: Policy Paradox and State Building in the Progressive Era
An enduring contribution of the new institutionalism is its affirmation of the significance of the Progressive era. As a result, we have learned not only how the “big bang” explosion of welfare legislation in the New Deal rests upon structures and precedents set in the early twentieth-century decades, but also how this early reform period continues to influence contemporary policies and politics. Alan Dawley, Bruce Ackerman, and Morton Keller, fo…
On the Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America
Preface Introduction: Individualism, Civic Virtue, and Gender Part I: English Origins 1. On the Man Question 2. On the Woman Question 3. On the Youth Question Part II: Locke's Legacy 4. Fathers and Sons 5. Citizens and the State 6. Women and Warriors Part III: Engendered Virtue 7. In Search of Fathers 8. In Search of Fraternity 9. The Keepers of Civic Virtue 10. Martial Virtue Conclusion: Fortune Is a Man Notes Index
Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives
Journal Article Understanding Congress: Research Perspectives. Ed. by Roger H. Davidson and Richard C. Sachs. (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991. xxii + 244 pp. $11.00, ISBN 0-16-035728-4.) Get access Eileen L. McDonagh Eileen L. McDonagh Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1717–1718, https://doi.org/10.2…
Good, bad, and captive Samaritans: Adding-in pregnancy and consent to the abortion debate
Constituency Influence on House Roll-Call Votes in the Progressive Era, 1913-1915
This research reviews techniques for measuring constituency opinion in policy congruence analyses. It introduces a new use of referenda votes for investigation of state-national policy linkages in the Progressive Era. Findings demonstrate the importance of constituency opinion and of regional and partisan influences in nationalizing major legislation in three policy areas: labor, woman suffrage, and prohibition. Analysis of historical congruency …
Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court: What's wrong and How to Fix It
Conference Panel: The Intellectual Legacy of the Johns Hopkins Seminary of History and Politics: Reconsidering the Genealogy of the Social Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Good, Bad, and Captive Samaritans: Adding-In Pregnancy and Consent to the Abortion Debate
This paper adds-in pregnancy and consent to the abortion debate in the context of good samaritan arguments initiated by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Drawing upon legal and medical definitions, the abortion issue is reframed as the right of a woman to consent to what will be done to her body by the fetus rather than her right merely to choose what to do with her own body. This argument shifts abortion rights from the right to decisional autonomy establi…
Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women
Kathleen Jones takes up some of the most central debates in contemporary feminist analysis: the nature of the categories of feminist theory; the development of alternative interpretative strategies; and the position of authority in feminist theory and practice. She engages with postmodernist feminism, the writings of feminists of colour, and textual strategies of film theory, to challenge conventional formulations of authority in modern political…
Hard Choices, Lost Voices: How the Abortion Conflict Has Divided America, Distorted Constitutional Rights and Damaged the Courts, by Donald P. Judges
In a powerful indictment of the battle over abortion rights, Mr. Judges charges that the conflict has divided society, distorted constitutional rights, and damaged the courts. Thoughtful, balanced...a welcome antidote to the emotional rhetoric that has polarized abortion debates in the U.S. This book issues a clarion call for a new approach to the issue. - Nadine Strossen
The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective
This special section of Social Science History launches a series of five articles illustrative of what we believe is an eclectic center in the development of historical studies of institutions and policies, often termed the “new institutionalism.” The new institutionalism emerged in the early 1980s in reaction to “a long season in which social forces and processes were the predominant topics of study” (Orren and Skowronek 1986). While the precise…
The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective
The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government, by Joseph M. Bessette
The Common Space of Social Science Inquiry
Breaking the Abortion Deadlock? Twenty-Five Years After Roe v. Wade
A quarter-century has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973. In recognition of the intense debates that continue to surround the question of abortion rights, the editors present the following forum, based on Eileen McDonagh's recent book, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock, published by Oxford University Press. The discussion was first presented at the 1997 Meetings of the American Political Science Association in Washington…
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