{"id":53,"date":"2019-02-19T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:59:23","slug":"2003-jaws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/pastsymposiums\/2003-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"2003 JAWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>\u201cWomen and Elective Office in Comparative Perspective\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em>University of Delaware and Philadelphia, PA (August 24-31)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Together with the University of Delaware,\u00a0APSA organized a two-part\u00a0workshop to encourage policy-relevant, collaborative research on women and elective office in Japan and the United States (see 2003 JAWS schedule). The\u00a02003 Open Boundaries Workshop brought together 16 Japanese and American political scientists to examine the organization, funding, and management of women\u2019s campaigns in the 2002 Japanese and American elections at all levels of government. (see 2003 JAWS participants).<\/p>\n<p>The first phase was a three-day session at the University of Delaware August 24-26, 2003 hosted by the University\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program. Topically, discussion focused on (1) recruitment of women to run for office: the roles of local parties, elite groups, interest groups, and women\u2019s political action committees; (2) women and campaign management; the professionalization of political campaigns; (3) women and funding candidates for office; (4) the problems created for women candidates by term limits at the state level; and (5) the political career ladder and the building of political capital to run for higher office. In addition to research panels, the session included public addresses by local women activists and elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>In the second phase of the workshop, the Japanese and American scholars participated in the APSA Annual Meeting from August 27-31, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 This phase of the exchange focused on the fit between women electoral experience and public policy in Japan and the United States. Two issues, elder care and equal employment opportunity, were the topics of formal discussions in panel and roundtable sessions and informal meetings organized in conjunction with the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Women\u2019s Caucus for Political Science<\/p>\n<p>Following the workshop, participants\u2019 revised papers were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mk0apsaconnectbvy6p6.kinstacdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/05\/Jan2004-eSymposium.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abstracted<\/a>\u00a0in the January 2004 issue of\u00a0<em>PS: Political Science &amp; Politics.\u00a0<\/em>Full papers were published on the APSA website in a special E-Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWomen and Elective Office in Comparative Perspective\u201d University of Delaware and Philadelphia, PA (August 24-31) Together with the University of Delaware,\u00a0APSA organized a two-part\u00a0workshop to encourage policy-relevant, collaborative research on women and elective office in Japan and the United States (see 2003 JAWS schedule). The\u00a02003 Open Boundaries Workshop brought together 16 Japanese and American political &#8230; <a title=\"2003 JAWS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/pastsymposiums\/2003-jaws\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2003 JAWS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28259,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}