Articles in Refereed Journals

Nechemias, Carol. "Welfare Policies in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras." Social Science Quarterly 59 (3): 562-569 (1978).

"Regional Differentiation of Living Standards in the RSFSR: The Issue of Inequality." Soviet Studies 32 (3): 366-378 (1980).     

"The Impact of Soviet Housing Policy on Housing Conditions in the Soviet Cities: The Uneven Push from Moscow." Urban Studies 18: 1-8 (1981).

Bahry, Donna and Carol Nechemias. "Half Full or Half Empty?: The Debate Over Soviet Regional Equality." Slavic Review 40 (3): 366-383 (1981). Reprinted in The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration in Context, pp. 287-304. Edited by Rachel Denber, Westview Press, Boulder, CO (1992).

Nechemias, Carol. "Geographic Mobility and Women's Access to State Legislatures." Western Political Quarterly 38(1): 119-131 (1985).

"Changes in the Election of Women to U.S. State Legislative Seats." Legislative Studies Quarterly 12 (1): 125-142 (1987).

Evans, Alfred, Jr. and Carol Nechemias. "Changes in Soviet Rural Resettlement Policy." Studies in Comparative Communism 23 (2): 125-147 (1990).

Nechemias, Carol. "Democratization and Women's Access to Legislative Seats: The Soviet Case, 1989-91." Women and Politics 14(3): 1-18 (1994).

 "Politics in Post-Soviet Russia: Where are the Women?" Demokratizatsiya 8 (2): 199-218 (2000).

Book Chapters

Nechemias, Carol. "Welfare in the USSR: Health Care, Housing and Personal Consumption." In Public Policy and Administration in the Soviet Union, pp. 172-206. Edited by G.B. Smith. American Society for Public Administration and Praeger, New York City, NY (1980).

Nechemias, Carol, and Donna Bahry. "The Soviet Union: Consumer Sector." In Comparative Resource Allocation: Politics, Performance, and Policy, pp. 101-126. Edited by A.J. Groth and L.L. Wade. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California (1984).

Nechemias, Carol. "Recent Changes in Soviet Rural Housing Policy." In Contemporary Soviet Agriculture, pp. 155-175. Edited by Kenneth Gray. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa (1990).

"The Prospects for a Soviet Women's Movement: Opportunities and Obstacles." In Perestroika from Below: Social Movements in the Soviet Union, pp. 56-72. Edited by Judith B. Sedaitis and Jim Butterfield. Westfield Press, Boulder, CO (1991).

"Soviet Political Arrangements: The Representation of Women and Nationalities." In The Impact of Electoral Systems on Women and Minorities in Comparative Perspective, pp. 89-100. Edited by Wilma Rule and Joseph Zimmerman. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (1994).

"Democratization without Women? Women's Participation in the USSR Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet." In Women in Russia: Anthology of Papers from June 1993 Conference, pp. 46-50. Edited by Elvira Yershova. Young Russia, Moscow (1994).

"Women's Participation: From Lenin to Gorbachev." In Russian Women in Politics and Society, pp. 15-39. Edited by Wilma Rule and Norma C. Noonan. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (1996).

"Women and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia." In Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe, pp. 8-23. Edited by Marilyn Rueschemeyer. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY (1998).

"Women in Russia: The Politics of Promoting Women's Issues." In Medical Issues and Health Care Reform in Russia, pp. 113-134. Edited by Vicki L. Hesli and Margaret H. Mills. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, New York (1999).

 "Russia." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: Europe, pp. 545-575. Edited by Lynn Walter. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (2003).

"Women Organizing Women in the Russian Federation." Forthcoming in The U.S. Women's Movement in a Dynamic and Global Perspective. Edited by Lee Ann Banaszak. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Boulder, CO (2005).

Books

Noonan, Norma  Corigliano and Carol Nechemias, editors. The Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. (Aside from editorial responsibilities, I am the sole author of the following six entries: Moscow Center for Gender Studies; Soviet Women's Committee; Women of Russia fraction; Charter of Solidarity; Anastatsiia Posadskaia; and the First and Second Independent Women's Forums held at Dubna)

Kuehnast, Kathleen and Carol Nechemias, editors. Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation-Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism. Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Articles in Nonrefereed Journals

Nechemias, Carol. "A Report on the Plenary Session: Welfare State With Us Always?" PS 14 (4): 787-788 (1981).

"Plenary Sessions Offer Analysis and Humor." PS 15 (4): 634-637 (1982).

"Lasswell Symposium Honors Holsti, Kramer, and MacRae." PS 16(4): 730-733 (1983).

 “Plenary Panelists Analyze Gender Differences in Politics." PS 16 (4): 733-737 (1983).

 "Presidential Selection Reform Debated at Annual Meeting." PS 17 (4): 798-801 (1984).

"Lasswell Symposium Analyzes Political Language." PS 17 (4): 801-804 (1984).

"Prospects for Arms Control." PS 18 (4): 798-803 (1985).

 "Reforming the American Political System." PS 18 (4): 803-807 (1985).

"Gaus Lecturer Kaufman Predicts Struggle Within Public Administration." PS 19 (4): 875-876 (1986).

 "Lasswell Panelists Consider Integrity of Democracies When Defense Dominates." PS 19 (4): 877-879 (1986).

 "Constitutional Aspects of Major Policy Controversies." PS 20 (4): 907-911 (1987).

"Sources on the Soviet Union." The Political Science Teacher 1 (2): 1-4  (1988)

 "Perspectives on American Politics: Domestic and Foreign." PS 21 (4): 961-966 (1988).

"The End of Realignment?" PS 22 (1): 908-909 (1989).

"Penn State Professor Gets First-Hand Look at Dilemmas Facing Russian Women." Dimensions (a publication of Penn State's Downtown Center in Harrisburg), Winter 1993: 3,5.

Participation in Professional Conferences Since 1986

Nechemias, Carol. "Recent Changes in Soviet Rural Housing Policy." Paper presented at the Conference on Soviet Agriculture in Gorbachev's First Five-Year Plan: Opportunities Suggested by Comparative Experience, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, The Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. April 3-4, 1986.

"Women's Recruitment to State Legislatures: The Uneven Pace of Change." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1986.

Chair, Panel on "The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues: Recent Developments." American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. August 1986.

Discussant, Panel on "USSR: The Private Sector and the Human Factor." Eighth International Conference on Soviet and East European Agriculture, Berkeley, CA, August 1987.

Discussant, Panel on "Resource Allocations in Communist Systems." American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 1987.

Evans, Alfred and Carol Nechemias. "Soviet Rural Resettlement Policy." Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 1987.

Discussant, Panel on "Soviet Nationality Policy." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, HA, November 1988.

Discussant, Panel on "Comparative Politics as Conveyed in Textbooks or The Introductory Course." American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 1989.

Chair, Panel on "Economic Reform in Socialism." American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 1989.

"The Prospects for a Soviet Women's Movement: Opportunities and Obstacles." Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 1991 and at the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, Carlisle, PA, April 1991.  

"Democratization and Women's Access to Legislative Seats: The Soviet Case, 1989-1991." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 1992.

"Transition to Democracy: The Issue of Women's Participation." Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Phoenix, AZ, November 1992.

 "Democratization without Women? Women's Participation in the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet." Paper presented at the Russian-American Conference, Women of Russia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Moscow, Russia, June 1-5, 1993.

 "The Politics of Identity: The Case of Contemporary Feminism." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 1993.

Discussant, Panel on "Women in Politics in Russia." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, HA, November 17-21, 1993.

Bahry, Donna and Carol Nechemias.   "The Role of Women and Economic Reform in the Russian Transition." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 14-16, 1994.

Discussant, Panel on "Russian Domestic Politics." Mid-Atlantic Slavic Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 19, 1994.

"The Women of Russia Movement: Charting New Territory." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, New York, NY, September 1-4, 1994.

"The Women of Russia Movement: Success or Failure?" Paper presented at the University of Illinois Russian and East European Summer Research Laboratory Brown Bag Lectures, June 11, 1996.

Chair, Panel on "Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Women's Organizing Amidst Transitions to Market Economies," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 14-17, 1996.

 "A Gender Analysis of Political Conduct: The American Case." Paper presented at the Petersburg Center of Gender Problems, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 19, 1997.

Roundtable participant, Panel on "Women in Post-Communist Russia," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997.

"The Russian Women's Movement: Facing the Issue of Reproductive Rights." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 3-6, 1998.

Discussant, Panel on "Health and Social Protection." Conference on Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 7-8, 1999.

 "Women in Politics in Post-Soviet Russia." Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, MO, November 18-21, 1999.

Chair, Panel on "Women's Organizations in the Russian Federation: Issues and Challenges," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, MO, November 18-21, 1999.

"Women's Access to Regional Legislatures in the Russian Federation: Where Do Women Win?" Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2, 2001.

Chair and discussant, Panel on "Subnational Dynamics and Democratization," American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2, 2001.

Nechemias, Carol and Ludmila Popkova, "Women's Political Activism and Post-Soviet Gender Culture in Russia," noontime lecture series, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, February 11, 2002.

Nechemias, Carol. "Civil Society in Russia, The Women's Movement, and Media Response." Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 21-24, 2002.

Discussant, Panel on "Society and the State: Nongovernmental Organizations in Russia Today," The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 21-24, 2002.

Cook, Linda and Carol Nechemias. "Women Parliamentarians in the Russian State Duma."Paper presented at the Women in East European Politics Conference, co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute and George Washington University, April 23-24, 2004, Washington, DC.

Kuehnast, Kathleen and Carol Nechemias, "Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition." Seminar and Book Launch, Woodrow Wilson Institute, May 25, 2004, Washington, DC.

Nechemias, Carol. “Women in Small Business in Volgograd: From Survival to Entrepreneurship.” Paper presented at the REEEC-AWSS International Conference, Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur?: Women and the Marketplace, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-25, 2005.

“Post-Soviet Economic Conditions in Russia and the Experience of Women in the Marketplace.” Workshop presented at the Summer Curriculum Development Workshop on Russia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 25, 2005.

 “Constructing Civil Society in Volgograd: An Emerging Post-Soviet Model?” Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington,DC, November 16-19, 2006.

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