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 candidates, yet many of these same candidates still encounter skepticism (at best) or hostility (at worst) from the public. The role of candidate 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.
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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.
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In a 1999 survey of the political and social attitudes of Americans, 92 percent of those interviewed said they would vote for a qualified woman candidate nominated by their party for president. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shared party identification, individual election years, gendered information, woman incumbent, voting for women candidates, candidate sex, voter sex, partisan stereotypes, incumbency status, woman candidate, support for women candidates, salience scores, electoral environment, more liberal than men, baseline preference, vote choice, state legislative office, party correspondence, voter demographics, election environment, women officeholders, affinity effect, political party identification, voter characteristics, substantive representation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, House of Representatives, American Journal of Political Science, Chi Square, Journal of Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, New Brunswick, Political Research Quarterly, Rutgers University, American Politics Quarterly, Fact Sheet, Gender Context, General Social Survey, Logistic Regression Coefficients, Oxford University Press, Public Opinion Quarterly, Ann Arbor, Clyde Wilcox, Feeling-Women's Movement, Nayda Terkildsen, Sue Thomas, Susan Welch, David Rohde, John Aldrich New!
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In a 1999 survey of the political and social attitudes of Americans, 92 percent of those interviewed said they would vote for a qualified woman candidate nominated by their party for president. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shared party identification, individual election years, gendered information, woman incumbent, voting for women candidates, candidate sex, voter sex, partisan stereotypes, incumbency status, woman candidate, support for women candidates, salience scores, electoral environment, more liberal than men, baseline preference, vote choice, state legislative office, party correspondence, voter demographics, election environment, women officeholders, affinity effect, political party identification, voter characteristics, substantive representation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, House of Representatives, American Journal of Political Science, Chi Square, Journal of Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, New Brunswick, Political Research Quarterly, Rutgers University, American Politics Quarterly, Fact Sheet, Gender Context, General Social Survey, Logistic Regression Coefficients, Oxford University Press, Public Opinion Quarterly, Ann Arbor, Clyde Wilcox, Feeling-Women's Movement, Nayda Terkildsen, Sue Thomas, Susan Welch, David Rohde, John Aldrich New!
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- Politics of Congressional Elections (Longman Classics Series), The (6th Edition) by Gary C. Jacobson on 5 pages
- The American Woman 1988-89 by Women's Research and Education Institute on 5 pages
- The American Voter by Angus Campbell on 5 pages
- The Year Of The Woman: Myths And Realities (Transforming American Politics) by Elizabeth Adell Cook on 5 pages
- The Political Consequences of Being a Woman by Kim Fridkin Kahn on page 55, page 86, and Back Matter
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- Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics) by Paula D. McClain in Front Matter
- It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office by Jennifer L. Lawless in Back Matter
- Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections (Women in American Politics) by Barbara Palmer in Back Matter
- Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics) by Clyde Wilcox in Front Matter
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