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Voting the gender gap /
This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Lois Duke Whitaker
- The history of the gender gaps / Barbara Norrander
- Women and the polls : questions, answers, images / Kathleen A. Frankovic
- The reemergence of the gender gap in 2004 / Cal Clark and Janet M. Clark
- Security moms and presidential politics : women voters in the 2004 election / Susan J. Carroll
- Women voters, women candidates : is there a gender gap in support for women candidates? / Kathleen A. Dolan
- Using exit polls to explore the gender gap in campaigns for senate and governor / Margie Omero
- Parenthood and the gender gap / Laurel Elder and Steven Greene
- Sources of political unity and disunity among women : placing the gender gap in perspective / Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte
- The gender gap : a comparison across racial and ethnic groups / M. Margaret Conway
- Conclusion: When women vote, are women empowered? / Lois Duke Whitaker.