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6 - Different Parties, Different Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2020

Nichole M. Bauer
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Stereotypes about women and men influence how voters evaluate the qualifications of political candidates, but stereotypes about gender sharply intersect with stereotypes about political parties. Chapter 6 builds on Chapter 5 and investigates how stereotypes about Democrats and Republicans affects evaluations of Democratic and Republican female candidates. Voters stereotype Democrats as feminine and Republicans as masculine. These stereotypes, I contend, create a set of gendered partisan-typicality standards that affect how voters select candidates in primary elections. Republican female candidates face obstacles in primary elections where Republican voters are more likely to support a Republican male relative to a Republican female candidate. Partisan-typicality standards shaped by gender stereotypes contribute to the partisan gender gap in political representation.

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The Qualifications Gap
Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office
, pp. 118 - 141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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