Voting for Women: How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813398419)

This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. 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 candidaes, yet many of these same candidates still encounter skepticism (at best) or hostility (at worst) from the public. The role of candidates 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.

Author: Kathy Dolan
ISBN-10: 081339841X
ISBN-13: 9780813398419
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1739