Susan J Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 645905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9767-2860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 354 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: The mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage
BACKGROUND: Longitudinal evidence regarding the associations between residential density, walking for transport (WfT) and body mass index (BMI) is limited, and how these relationships vary across different neighbourhood socioeconomic contexts is not yet known. Therefore, we examined longitudinal associations between residential density and BMI: the mediating role of WfT and the moderating effects of neighbourhood disadvantage. METHODS: ivity) mul…
Reliability assessment of the ‘field audit for children’s active transport routes to school’ (FACTS) tool
The FACTS tool can reliably characterise the microscale built environment of promoted 'safe routes' for their use within SR2S programs, and should be considered for use in future SR2S programs within the suburban Australian context
Residential Area Sociodemographic and Breast Cancer Screening Venue Location Built Environmental Features Associated with Women’s Use of Closest Venue in Greater Sydney, Australia
Understanding environmental predictors of women's use of closest breast screening venue versus other site(s) may assist optimal venue placement. This study assessed relationships between residential-area sociodemographic measures, venue location features, and women's use of closest versus other venues. Data of 320,672 Greater Sydney screening attendees were spatially joined to residential state suburbs (SSCs) ( n = 799). SSC-level sociodemographi…
Associations between supermarket availability and body size in Australia: A cross-sectional observational study comparing state and territory capital cities
For Australian capital cities, greater availability of supermarkets is associated with healthful body size. Marked between-city variations in body size, supermarket availability, and relationships between supermarket availability and body size do not, however, support universal, "one-size-fits-all" solutions to change built environments to support healthful body size
Contributions of Multiple Built Environment Features to 10-Year Change in Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference in a South Australian Middle-Aged Cohort
Residential areas may shape health, yet few studies are longitudinal or concurrently test relationships between multiple residential features and health. This longitudinal study concurrently assessed the contributions of multiple environmental features to 10-year change in clinically measured body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Longitudinal data for adults (18+ years of age, n = 2253) from the north-west of Adelaide, Australia wer…
Concurrent assessment of urban environment and cardiometabolic risk over 10 years in a middle-aged population-based cohort
Inference regarding the impact of urban areas on health is limited by cross-sectional studies assessing few dimensions and ignoring area-level socio-economic status. This study simultaneously assessed several dimensions of the built environment against incident cardiometabolic risk (CMR) arising over 10 years. It tested the hypothesis that, accounting for local area relative wealth, features of the built environment would not predict incident CMR…
Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics
For this edition of Ask a Feminist, we turn to Susan J. Carroll—eminent political scientist and longtime advocate of women’s political participation—to address issues around gender and electoral politics. Her expertise and experience are needed now more than ever
Does Physical Activity Mediate the Associations Between Local-Area Descriptive Norms, Built Environment Walkability, and Glycosylated Hemoglobin
Associations between local-area residential features and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA 1c ) may be mediated by individual-level health behaviors. Such indirect effects have rarely been tested. This study assessed whether individual-level self-reported physical activity mediated the influence of local-area descriptive norms and objectively expressed walkability on 10-year change in HbA 1c . HbA 1c was assessed three times for adults in a 10-year po…
Local descriptive body weight and dietary norms, food availability, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical cohort
Local descriptive health-related norms, not food resource availability, predicted 10-year change in HbA 1c . Null findings for food resource availability may reflect a sufficiency or minimum threshold level of resources such that availability poses no barrier to obtaining healthful or unhealthful foods for this region. However, the influence of local descriptive norms varied according to food resource availability in effects on HbA 1c . Local des…
Regional Differences in Correlates of Daily Walking among Middle Age and Older Australian Rural Adults: Implications for Health Promotion
Rural Australians are less physically active than their metropolitan counterparts, and yet very little is known of the candidate intervention targets for promoting physical activity in rural populations. As rural regions are economically, socially and environmentally diverse, drivers of regular physical activity are likely to vary between regions. This study explored the region-specific correlates of daily walking among middle age and older adult…
Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical c…
Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics
The Latina advantage: Gender, race and political success
Despite the increasing growth in the Latino population in the USA and the growing importance of the Latino vote, very little research has examined politically relevant gender differences in the Lat
More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
The Rights of Violence
There are very few articles written forty years ago that continue to remain essential reading for undergraduate students. ‘The Rites of Violence’ is one of those select few. Its place in the historical canon is assured for five reasons. First, it was a major contribution to the assault on social science structuralism. Afterwards, religion or crowd behaviour could no longer be reduced to a set of social and economic variables. Secondly, Davis show…
Reflections on Gender and Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Misogynic
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Commentary on Emmy E. Werner's 1968 Article, “Women in the State Legislatures”
This commentary examines the contributions of Emmy W. Werner's classic article to the study of women and politics and to knowledge about women in state legislatures, placing the article in the context of its time and highlighting its continuing relevance
Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled
In 2004, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the voter turnout rate for women was 60.1% compared with 56.3% for men, and across the United States 8.8 million more women than men voted. Women have voted at higher rates than men in all presidential elections since 1980, with the gap between women and men growing slightly larger in each subsequent election year. Moreover, in 2004, women outvoted men (in terms of both turnout rates and actual…
Far from Ideal: The Gender Politics of Political Science
Political science has mirrored the political culture even as it has explained it, and at critical times the gendering of political science has left it unprepared to explain notable changes in political life. Here, we examine political science as a gendered institution across three critical time periods: the founding era of the discipline, the 1970s and 1980s, and the present. For each period, we assess the presence, position, and experiences of w…
She Brought Only a Skirt: Print Media Coverage of Elizabeth Dole's Bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination
This article analyzes two data sets to determine differences in print media coverage of Elizabeth Dole and five other Republican contenders for the presidential nomination in 1999: George W. Bush, John McCain, Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, and Steve Forbes. Our findings indicate that Dole received a differential amount and type of print media coverage that was decidedly gendered and may have hindered her candidacy. Dole did not receive an amount of med…
Reflections on Activism and Social Change for Scholars of Women and Politics
How should scholars view and relate to activism and social change? Concern over this question is neither new nor limited to political scientists. Nevertheless, because of the special relationship between our academic enterprise and the larger women's movement outside the academy, this concern is particularly acute for those of us who approach the study of politics from a feminist perspective
Unrealized Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State Legislatures
Using data from the state legislative elections of 1998 and 2000, this article examines empirically the expectation prevalent in the women and politics literature that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women legislators. At the state house level, in both elections more women were forced to leave state house seats because of term limits than were elected to house seats that were vacated by term-limited incu…
Do Term Limits Help Women Get Elected
Objective . We examine the proposition put forward by term limit advocates and some scholars that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women serving in state legislatures. Methods . Data are examined for all state house races in the six states that implemented term limits in 1998. Results . Although there was some variation across the states, the overall number of women serving in state house seats that were …
The Disempowerment of the Gender Gap: Soccer Moms and the 1996 Elections
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La science politique américaine face aux défis du féminisme
La science politique américaine face aux défis du féminisme. Susan J. Carroll, Linda M. G. Zerilli [33-81]. Bénéficiant d'un développement fulgurant, le sous-champ des recherches consacrées aux femmes et à la politique a profondément remis en question au cours des années quatre-vingt et quatre-vingt-dix les postulats, les définitions et les méthodologies de la science politique américaine traditionnelle. Les auteurs du présent article nous donnen…
She Brought Only a Skirt: Print Media Coverage of Elizabeth Dole's Bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination
This article analyzes two data sets to determine differences in print media coverage of Elizabeth Dole and five other Republican contenders for the presidential nomination in 1999: George W. Bush, John McCain, Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, and Steve Forbes. Our findings indicate that Dole received a differential amount and type of print media coverage that was decidedly gendered and may have hindered her candidacy. Dole did not receive an amount of med…
Reflections on Gender and Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Misogynic
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Far from Ideal: The Gender Politics of Political Science
Political science has mirrored the political culture even as it has explained it, and at critical times the gendering of political science has left it unprepared to explain notable changes in political life. Here, we examine political science as a gendered institution across three critical time periods: the founding era of the discipline, the 1970s and 1980s, and the present. For each period, we assess the presence, position, and experiences of w…
Political Elites and Sex Differences in Political Ambition: A Reconsideration
This study examines the political ambitions of representative national samples of women and men holding comparable elective offices in 1981. In contrast to the findings of previous research on sex differences in political ambition, most of which focused on party activists, women are found to be as ambitious for public officeholding as their male counterparts. Two possible explanations for the differences in results between this and earlier studie…
Woman Candidates and Support for Feminist Concerns: The Closet Feminist Syndrome
WX A HY SHOULD WOMEN hold a larger proportion of public offices in this country? What difference does it make if most positions of political power are filled by men? Responses to these questions generally follow one of two lines of argument. According to the first, the paucity of women in public office is inconsistent with fundamental democratic principles and with a representative form of government. Greater representation is viewed as a democra…
The Disempowerment of the Gender Gap: Soccer Moms and the 1996 Elections
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 Personal is Political: The Intersection and Private Lives and Public Roles Among Women and Men in Elective and Appointive Office
This article investigates similarities and differences in the relationship between "public" and "private" in the lives of women and men who hold elective and appointive office. An analysis of data collected through surveys of federal appointees and state legislators indicates that men's political choices may be more influenced by private sphere considerations than commonly believed, but that private sphere concerns are nevertheless of greater sig…
Do Term Limits Help Women Get Elected
Objective . We examine the proposition put forward by term limit advocates and some scholars that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women serving in state legislatures. Methods . Data are examined for all state house races in the six states that implemented term limits in 1998. Results . Although there was some variation across the states, the overall number of women serving in state house seats that were …
Unrealized Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State Legislatures
Using data from the state legislative elections of 1998 and 2000, this article examines empirically the expectation prevalent in the women and politics literature that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women legislators. At the state house level, in both elections more women were forced to leave state house seats because of term limits than were elected to house seats that were vacated by term-limited incu…
Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled
In 2004, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the voter turnout rate for women was 60.1% compared with 56.3% for men, and across the United States 8.8 million more women than men voted. Women have voted at higher rates than men in all presidential elections since 1980, with the gap between women and men growing slightly larger in each subsequent election year. Moreover, in 2004, women outvoted men (in terms of both turnout rates and actual…
Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical c…
Reflections on Activism and Social Change for Scholars of Women and Politics
How should scholars view and relate to activism and social change? Concern over this question is neither new nor limited to political scientists. Nevertheless, because of the special relationship between our academic enterprise and the larger women's movement outside the academy, this concern is particularly acute for those of us who approach the study of politics from a feminist perspective
Women Appointed to the Carter Administration: More or Less Qualified
Concurrent assessment of urban environment and cardiometabolic risk over 10 years in a middle-aged population-based cohort
Inference regarding the impact of urban areas on health is limited by cross-sectional studies assessing few dimensions and ignoring area-level socio-economic status. This study simultaneously assessed several dimensions of the built environment against incident cardiometabolic risk (CMR) arising over 10 years. It tested the hypothesis that, accounting for local area relative wealth, features of the built environment would not predict incident CMR…
From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960, by Susan M. Hartmann
From Margin to Mainstream is a detailed and comprehensive account of women's participation in the American political system from 1960 to the present, Susan M. Hartmann traces the growing role of women in the political process and describes the many issues around which they have mobilized such as the ERA, the Equal Pay Act, federal child care programs, and the appointment of women to high government posts. She discusses the activities and the lead…
The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation
Woman Candidates and Support for Feminist Concerns: The Closet Feminist Syndrome
WX A HY SHOULD WOMEN hold a larger proportion of public offices in this country? What difference does it make if most positions of political power are filled by men? Responses to these questions generally follow one of two lines of argument. According to the first, the paucity of women in public office is inconsistent with fundamental democratic principles and with a representative form of government. Greater representation is viewed as a democra…
Women as candidates in American politics
Political Elites and Sex Differences in Political Ambition: A Reconsideration
This study examines the political ambitions of representative national samples of women and men holding comparable elective offices in 1981. In contrast to the findings of previous research on sex differences in political ambition, most of which focused on party activists, women are found to be as ambitious for public officeholding as their male counterparts. Two possible explanations for the differences in results between this and earlier studie…
The Pastoral Priorities of the Philippine Bishops: A Report on a Survey
Women Appointed to the Carter Administration: More or Less Qualified
The Personal is Political: The Intersection and Private Lives and Public Roles Among Women and Men in Elective and Appointive Office
This article investigates similarities and differences in the relationship between "public" and "private" in the lives of women and men who hold elective and appointive office. An analysis of data collected through surveys of federal appointees and state legislators indicates that men's political choices may be more influenced by private sphere considerations than commonly believed, but that private sphere concerns are nevertheless of greater sig…
From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960, by Susan M. Hartmann
From Margin to Mainstream is a detailed and comprehensive account of women's participation in the American political system from 1960 to the present, Susan M. Hartmann traces the growing role of women in the political process and describes the many issues around which they have mobilized such as the ERA, the Equal Pay Act, federal child care programs, and the appointment of women to high government posts. She discusses the activities and the lead…
La science politique américaine face aux défis du féminisme
La science politique américaine face aux défis du féminisme. Susan J. Carroll, Linda M. G. Zerilli [33-81]. Bénéficiant d'un développement fulgurant, le sous-champ des recherches consacrées aux femmes et à la politique a profondément remis en question au cours des années quatre-vingt et quatre-vingt-dix les postulats, les définitions et les méthodologies de la science politique américaine traditionnelle. Les auteurs du présent article nous donnen…
The Disempowerment of the Gender Gap: Soccer Moms and the 1996 Elections
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
Unrealized Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State Legislatures
Using data from the state legislative elections of 1998 and 2000, this article examines empirically the expectation prevalent in the women and politics literature that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women legislators. At the state house level, in both elections more women were forced to leave state house seats because of term limits than were elected to house seats that were vacated by term-limited incu…
Do Term Limits Help Women Get Elected
Objective . We examine the proposition put forward by term limit advocates and some scholars that the implementation of term limits will lead to increases in the numbers of women serving in state legislatures. Methods . Data are examined for all state house races in the six states that implemented term limits in 1998. Results . Although there was some variation across the states, the overall number of women serving in state house seats that were …
She Brought Only a Skirt: Print Media Coverage of Elizabeth Dole's Bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination
This article analyzes two data sets to determine differences in print media coverage of Elizabeth Dole and five other Republican contenders for the presidential nomination in 1999: George W. Bush, John McCain, Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, and Steve Forbes. Our findings indicate that Dole received a differential amount and type of print media coverage that was decidedly gendered and may have hindered her candidacy. Dole did not receive an amount of med…
Reflections on Activism and Social Change for Scholars of Women and Politics
How should scholars view and relate to activism and social change? Concern over this question is neither new nor limited to political scientists. Nevertheless, because of the special relationship between our academic enterprise and the larger women's movement outside the academy, this concern is particularly acute for those of us who approach the study of politics from a feminist perspective
Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled
In 2004, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the voter turnout rate for women was 60.1% compared with 56.3% for men, and across the United States 8.8 million more women than men voted. Women have voted at higher rates than men in all presidential elections since 1980, with the gap between women and men growing slightly larger in each subsequent election year. Moreover, in 2004, women outvoted men (in terms of both turnout rates and actual…
Far from Ideal: The Gender Politics of Political Science
Political science has mirrored the political culture even as it has explained it, and at critical times the gendering of political science has left it unprepared to explain notable changes in political life. Here, we examine political science as a gendered institution across three critical time periods: the founding era of the discipline, the 1970s and 1980s, and the present. For each period, we assess the presence, position, and experiences of w…
Commentary on Emmy E. Werner's 1968 Article, “Women in the State Legislatures”
This commentary examines the contributions of Emmy W. Werner's classic article to the study of women and politics and to knowledge about women in state legislatures, placing the article in the context of its time and highlighting its continuing relevance
Reflections on Gender and Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Misogynic
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The Rights of Violence
There are very few articles written forty years ago that continue to remain essential reading for undergraduate students. ‘The Rites of Violence’ is one of those select few. Its place in the historical canon is assured for five reasons. First, it was a major contribution to the assault on social science structuralism. Afterwards, religion or crowd behaviour could no longer be reduced to a set of social and economic variables. Secondly, Davis show…
More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics
The Latina advantage: Gender, race and political success
Despite the increasing growth in the Latino population in the USA and the growing importance of the Latino vote, very little research has examined politically relevant gender differences in the Lat
Regional Differences in Correlates of Daily Walking among Middle Age and Older Australian Rural Adults: Implications for Health Promotion
Rural Australians are less physically active than their metropolitan counterparts, and yet very little is known of the candidate intervention targets for promoting physical activity in rural populations. As rural regions are economically, socially and environmentally diverse, drivers of regular physical activity are likely to vary between regions. This study explored the region-specific correlates of daily walking among middle age and older adult…
Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical c…
Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics
For this edition of Ask a Feminist, we turn to Susan J. Carroll—eminent political scientist and longtime advocate of women’s political participation—to address issues around gender and electoral politics. Her expertise and experience are needed now more than ever
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