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Evaluate Women Candidates
female political representation
gender and electoral success in US politics
gender bias in elections
Gendered Information
GSS Data
House Races
identification
Impact Coefficient
Kathleen A. Dolan
Low Information Elections
Men Candidates
Open Seat Races
Partisan Stereotypes
party
Party Identification
political behavior research
Political Party
Political Party Identification
Pro-choice Voters
public opinion studies
Republican Women Candidates
Respondent Sex
Senate Elections
sex
shaping
Shaping Vote Choice
Single Member District
State Legislative Office
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Support Women Candidates
vote
Vote Choice
voter attitudes analysis
Women Candidates
Women's Candidacies
Product details
- ISBN 9780813398419
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate pool for elective office in the United States. Public opinion surveys profess strong support for female candidaes, yet many of these same candidates still encounter skepticism (at best) or hostility (at worst) from the public. The role of candidates gender in elections is a complex one. Yet, our understanding of how voters react to these women is often based on election-specific, anecdotal, or hypothetical evidence. Voting for Women is one of the first book-length treatments of both how the public evaluates female candidates and whether and when people will support them at the polls. It also provides a history of women and elections in the U.S. and analysis of contemporary data on how voting environments can influence women's success.
Kathleen Dolan received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland in 1991. She is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of elections, public opinion, and gender politics.
