Counting Women's Ballots

J. Kevin Corder is a Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics and other outlets in political science and public administration. Much of his work focuses on economic policy, and he is the author of two books on the Federal Reserve System. In 2013, Corder received a Fulbright-Schuman European Affairs program grant to study the regulation of banks in Malta and the United Kingdom. Corder shared the Carrie Chapman Catt prize with Christina Wolbrecht for the research design that inspired Counting Women's Ballots. Christina Wolbrecht is an Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (2000), which received the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the APSA. She is co-editor of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2008) as well as other edited volumes, and the author or co-author of a number of articles in leading political science journals.

'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 authors' exacting techniques and thorough analyses contribute decisive answers to long-standing questions, making this a landmark book.' The Journal of American History

• 1. Counting women's ballots; 2. Before suffrage; 3. What we already know; 4. Estimating women's turnout and vote choice; 5. Female voters and the republican landslide of 1920; 6. Female voters, republican majorities, and the progressive surge in 1924; 7. Female voters and the 'rum and religion' election of 1928; 8. Female voters and the emerging democratic majority, 1932–6; 9. Female voters from suffrage through the new deal and beyond.