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"IPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups, and organize revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions, and provide opportunities for volunteers. iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena. Most importantly, the volume emphasizes the implications of these changes for the promotion of democratic ideals. Among other things, contributors to this volume analyze whether the public's political knowledge has increased or decreased in the new media era, the role television still plays in the information universe, the effect bloggers have had on the debate and outcome of healthcare reform, and the manner in which political leaders should navigate the new media environment. While the majority of contributors examine new media and politics in the United States, the volume also provides a unique comparative perspective on this relationship using cases from abroad"--Provided by publisher

From journalism to sensationalism -- The impact of the media culture on public attitudes toward the criminal justice system -- Is there any escape from tabloid justice?

The prominence and acceptance of gender as an important subject of inquiry in U.S. politics has been steadily growing in political science. Indeed, in the 1960s and 1970s, small sample sizes of women in politics and disdain from the disciplinary gatekeepers made the serious study of gender in U.S. politics difficult to pursue (Flammang 1997; Tolleson-Rinehart and Carroll 2006). The world is clearly different today, as gender politics courses are finding their way into undergraduate and graduate curricula throughout the United States. While the ascension of gender analysis of U.S. politics as a critical variable for study is not complete, the future is bright. Several recent volumes have addressed the current state of the subfield, and most notably, Susan J. Carroll's (2003) edited volume Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions focused on the very purpose of laying out a research agenda for those studying gender in U.S. politics (see also Krook and Childs 2010; Wolbrecht, Beckwith, and Baldez 2008). In this essay, I continue the discussion of where the gender and U.S. politics subfield is headed by providing a brief overview of the state of the field and by offering suggestions for future avenues of study, primarily in the area of candidate emergence.

The central research questions that I wanted to pursue in my
dissertation were clear to me early in my graduate school career. I
wanted to explore why some groups in the United States were so
woefully unrepresented in many of the nation's high-level political
offices. In 1991, when I began to think more concretely about my
topic, there were only two women serving in the U.S. Senate, and the
literature exploring the experiences of women candidates was very
limited. Because of the seeming injustice of this situation, I
quickly knew I wanted to jump into this area of research to see if I
could shed some light on what was causing the enormous discrepancy
in the number of men and women being elected to top offices.

Recent research has explored differences in the experiences of women and men public officials. Overlooked in these examinations is the position of city manager—a significant position in terms of local administration and policy development. Current figures indicate that women are underrepresented in the field of city management when compared with their peers in the private sector and federal and state administration—women hold only 11% of city manager positions. In trying to explain women's apparent underrepresentation, the authors explore the importance of mentoring in the public sector using data gathered from a nationwide study of women and men city managers. Their data suggest that mentoring in the city management profession is characterized by factors that appear to work against women. These factors, which include a vacuum of professional mentoring opportunities, may help explain the slow inclusion of women into the field of city management.

Explores how or whether gender influences city administration, based on multivariate analysis (logistic & OLS techniques) of data derived from a national mail survey of women & men city managers (N = 90 & 148, with 61% & 65% response rates, respectively). While results are mixed, analysis reveals that women managers were more likely than their male counterparts to focus on community relations & to include citizen input in decision-making practices. However, in several aspects of the role of city manager, the socializing influence of the city management profession appears to override any possible gender differences. It is concluded that, transferring expectations about women political leaders to positions in city management is fraught with complexity. Research & analysis of gender must take into account the political context of the environment being considered. 4 Tables, 46 References. Adapted from the source document.