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100			_aHolman, M.R., Mahoney, A. and Hurler, E. _936464
245			_aLet’s work together: Bill success via women’s cosponsorship in U.S. State legislatures
260			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
300			_a75(3), Sep, 2022: p.676-690
520			_aNot all pieces of legislation introduced for consideration are equally likely to be successful. The characteristics of legislation’s cosponsors can influence bill passage rates. Despite facing marginalization in legislative bodies and more electoral vulnerability, women are effective lawmakers. We argue that one way by which women overcome marginalization and gendered expectations of performance is bill success from legislation cosponsored with other women. Testing this expectation on bills (140,000+) introduced in U.S. state legislatures in forty states in 2015, we find increased bill success from women’s cosponsorship with each other and women from the other party. Using variation in the share of women in legislative chambers and in legislative leadership, we find evidence to suggest that women’s success emerges both from marginalization and gendered opportunities. – Reproduced
650			_aLegislatures, Bill success, Collaboration, Cosponsorship, Women in politics, Marginalization. _934947
773			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
906			_aLEGISLATURES
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