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He runs, she runs : why gender stereotypes do not harm women candidates /

"While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a key reason is because female candidates start out at a disadvantage with the public, compared to male candidate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Deborah Jordan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Foundations
  • How to Study Gender Stereotype Usage and Double Standards in Campaigns
  • Descriptive Candidate Gender Stereotypes and the Role of Candidate Experience
  • Tears and Anger on the Campaign Trail
  • Unbinding the Double Bind
  • Knowledge Gaffes
  • Reassessing the Parity Problem
  • A Bright Future for Women in Politics
  • Appendix 1: Text of newspaper treatments
  • Appendix 2: Questionnaire
  • Appendix 3: How the public responds to each behavior
  • Appendix 4: How the public responds to candidate experience
  • Appendix 5: Results for candidate experience ; Candidate gender
  • Appendix 6: Results for candidate gender (control group only)
  • Appendix 7: Results for crying ; Candidate gender
  • Appendix 8: Results for anger ; Candidate gender
  • Appendix 9: Results for toughness ; Candidate gender
  • Appendix 10: Results for lack of empathy ; Candidate gender
  • Appendix 11: Results for knowledge gaffe ; Candidate gender.