Incumbent ideology, district ideology, and candidate entry in U.S. congressional elections, 1954–2008
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 181-190
ISSN: 0362-3319
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In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 181-190
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 217-244
ISSN: 1755-0491
AbstractNational and cross-national studies demonstrate that the probability of women candidates' emergence and success is lower in more religious areas. One recent study of the U.S. House of Representatives even suggests that the effect of religiosity may be so powerful as to render insignificant other contextual factors, including a district's baseline women-friendliness. We argue that this finding is an institutional artifact; in less competitive contests with more internally similar constituencies, both religion and other contextual factors should affect women candidates' emergence and victory. We test this proposition using state legislative data and find that while women are less likely to run and win in more religious areas, district women-friendliness has an independent, positive effect on women's candidacies. These effects are particularly noteworthy in districts with large evangelical Protestant populations and affect Republican and Democratic women similarly.
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Volume 26, Issue 4, p. 423-434
ISSN: 1745-7297
In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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