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The Political Geography of the Gender Gap
In: The journal of politics: JOP, S. 000-000
ISSN: 1468-2508
Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy. By Ana Catalano Weeks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300p. $99.99 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 745-746
ISSN: 1541-0986
Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis
In: American political science review, Band 117, Heft 2, S. 759-766
ISSN: 1537-5943
The right to vote is a keystone of democracy, but many groups, including those that were long excluded from the ballot, fail to exercise their rights in large numbers. In the United States, cutting edge research has argued that the first women to cast ballots were "peripheral" voters: their decisions to participate were even more sensitive to electoral competition than were men's, producing larger gender gaps in turnout in less competitive districts. This paper argues that the portability of the peripheral voting thesis depends on the electoral institutions when suffrage was granted. Using the example of Norway, which transitioned from majoritarian rules to proportional representation just a few years after women won the vote, I show that proportional representation, which increases competition on average, produces a dramatic fall in the gender turnout gap, particularly in previously uncompetitive districts. These findings suggest that electoral systems, more than gender, made women peripheral voters
A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage. By Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 320p. $79.99 cloth, $24.99 paper
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 1212-1213
ISSN: 1541-0986
Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 135, Heft 2, S. 365-367
ISSN: 1538-165X
All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women. By Kaitlin N. Sidorsky. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 248p. $34.95 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 258-259
ISSN: 1541-0986
How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women's Enfranchisement in the United States
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 442-461
ISSN: 1468-2508
Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote
In: Politics & society, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 537-561
ISSN: 1552-7514
Were women agents of their own political emancipation or did politicians preemptively grant rights to them in a bid for electoral success? This article claims that both electoral politics and the ordinary strategies of women's movements explain the timing of female suffrage. Drawing on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, I show how in an electoral environment where the incumbent Liberals saw disadvantage to reform, an enterprising group of Liberal suffragists formed a pact with the Labour party, trading economic resources for the party's promise to push for suffrage reform. The Election Fighting Fund, as the pact was called, was key to securing women's place in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. In raising the possibility that ordinary instead of revolutionary tactics proved key to voting rights reform, women emerge as an interesting new case for the study of democratization.
Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote
In: Politics & society, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 537-561
ISSN: 0032-3292
A developmental approach to historical causal inference
In: Public choice, Band 185, Heft 3-4, S. 253-279
ISSN: 1573-7101
Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 433-447
ISSN: 1537-5935
ABSTRACT
This article explores publication patterns across 10 prominent political science journals, documenting a significant gender gap in publication rates for men and women. We present three broad findings. First, we find no evidence that the low percentage of female authors simply mirrors an overall low share of women in the profession. Instead, we find continued underrepresentation of women in many of the discipline's top journals. Second, we find that women are not benefiting equally in a broad trend across the discipline toward coauthorship. Most published collaborative research in these journals emerges from all-male teams. Third, it appears that the methodological proclivities of the top journals do not fully reflect the kind of work that female scholars are more likely than men to publish in these journals. The underrepresentation of qualitative work in many journals is associated as well with an underrepresentation of female authors.
New Medium, Same Story? Gender Gaps in Book Publishing
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 131-140
ABSTRACTRecent research points to a gender gap in journal-article authorship: women are underrepresented. Given that publishing a book remains central to many political scientists' careers, this article explores the extent to which gender publication and citation gaps also exist for books. We find that although the gender publication gap for university-press books has narrowed over time, it remains larger than for journal articles. We also find that book-authorship patterns do not reflect the shift toward coauthorship observed for journal articles. Conversely, we find no gender citation gap for books written by one woman. However, books coauthored by coed teams or teams of women receive far fewer citations than books written by one man or one woman or by teams of men.
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women's Decisions to Run for Office
In: American political science review, Band 115, Heft 2, S. 379-394
ISSN: 1537-5943
Women's underrepresentation in American politics is often attributed to relatively low levels of political ambition. Yet scholarship still grapples with a major leak in the pipeline to power: that many qualified and politically ambitious women decide against candidacy. Focusing on women with political ambition, we theorize that at the final stage of candidate emergence, household income, breadwinning responsibilities, and household composition are interlocking obstacles to women's candidacies. We examine these dynamics through a multimethod design that includes an original survey of women most likely to run for office: alumnae of the largest Democratic campaign training organization in the United States. Although we do not find income effects, we provide evidence that breadwinning—responsibility for a majority of household income—negativelyaffects women's ambition, especially for mothers. These findings have important implications for understanding how the political economy of the household affects candidate emergence and descriptive representation in the United States.
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics
In: American political science review, Band 112, Heft 3, S. 525-541
ISSN: 1537-5943
This paper theorizes three forms of bias that might limit women's representation: outright hostility, double standards, and a double bind whereby desired traits present bigger burdens for women than men. We examine these forms of bias using conjoint experiments derived from several original surveys—a population survey of American voters and two rounds of surveys of American public officials. We find no evidence of outright discrimination or of double standards. All else equal, most groups of respondents prefer female candidates, and evaluate men and women with identical profiles similarly. But on closer inspection, all is not equal. Across the board, elites and voters prefer candidates with traditional household profiles such as being married and having children, resulting in a double bind for many women. So long as social expectations about women's familial commitments cut against the demands of a full-time political career, women are likely to remain underrepresented in politics.