The Culture Wars Meet State Politics: Gender, Representation and Abortion Policy provides an interesting analysis of the fact that the number of women in a state legislature increases the likelihood that a state will have more liberal abortion policies. The authors find a difference in the manner in which women candidates are recruited in the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as the type of districts in which they are successful. Democratic women legislators tended to be associated with women’s groups more frequently than Republican women legislators, and while Democratic women are electable in all types of Democratic leaning districts, Republican women tend to be elected in the more liberal Republican districts.