Voter Bias and the Partisan Gender-Gap in Office

In the United States, women compose a larger share of elected Democrats than of elected Republicans at every level of government. Drawing together literature on the gender-gap in office, on voters’ use of gender stereotypes, and on women’s descriptive representation, we propose a set of hypotheses a...

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Gender stereotypes
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Original Paper
Partisanship
Political behavior
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
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