Kimberlee Bachman Holland
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Contact Information
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Research
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In the past 12 years women have made unprecedented electoral gains in the United States Congress. Despite this notable shift, very little research has examined whether or not the gender of Senators/Representatives is consequential to federal legislative processes, priorities or passage. In order to assess the impact of women in Congress I have spent the past two years creating a large socio-legislative database linking the social and political characteristics of members of Congress with each of the bills he/she sponsored during the Congress of record. At present the database includes the 103rd Congress (1993-1994) through this most recent 108th Congress (2002-2003). The database consists of some 47,000 bills (records). Nearly 75% of the database is complete. The database includes information on the Senator/Representative's gender, age, enducational attainment, religious affilitation as well as party affiliation, congressional seniority committee assignments, and campaign contributors. Bill information includes the bill topic (i.e., Foreign Relations), type (i.e., commemorative), and passage (i.e., died in committee) as well as other information. Due to the duration of time it has taken to compile the data, we have only recently been able to analyze some of the data, however, we cannot proceed further until we finish identifying commemorative from non-commemorative bills so we can elimate commemorative bills from our analyses. The dataset is a one-of-a-kind dataset and should be fruitful in terms of research publications for many years to come. Social theory will be used to interpret the results.
Education
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Ph.D.
Sociology
Purdue University
2002
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M.S.
Sociology
Brigham Young University
1997
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B.A.
Broadcast Communications and International Relations
Brigham Young University
1995
Publications
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Tim B. Heaton, Cardell K. Jacobson, and KIMBERLEE B. HOLLAND.
Persistence and Change in Decisions to Remain Childless.
Journal of Marriage and the Family.
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Ferraro, Kenneth F. and KIMBERLEE B. HOLLAND.
Physician Evaluation of Obesity in Health Surveys: Who are You Calling Fat?.
Social Science and Medicine.
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Kim Holland, Faculty Profile.
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