The Way She Moves: Political Repositioning and Gender Stereotypes

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI:10.1017/xps.2024.4

M. Meijers

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Abstract

Research on policy shifts has found that repositioning can be costly as it affects candidates’ perceived honesty, reliability, and competence. It remains unclear, however, whether a politician’s gender affects perceptions of repositioning. Research on gender stereotypes has found that while male politicians are viewed as more competent, decisive, and displaying strong leadership, female politicians are believed to be more honest. Applying expectancy-violation theory, I test the hypothesis that the reputational cost of repositioning is more pronounced for female politicians in a preregistered survey experiment fielded on a large convenience sample in Flanders, Belgium (n = 6,957). I find that while frequent repositioning is evaluated negatively, the negative effect of repositioning is not more pronounced for female candidates than for male candidates on most outcome measures.

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她移动的方式：政治重新定位与性别陈规定型观念

有关政策转变的研究发现，重新定位会影响候选人的诚实度、可靠性和能力，因而代价高昂。然而，政治家的性别是否会影响人们对重新定位的看法，目前仍不清楚。有关性别刻板印象的研究发现，男性政治家被认为更有能力、更果断、更有领导力，而女性政治家则被认为更诚实。我运用期望-违规理论，在比利时佛兰德斯的一个大型便利样本（n = 6957）中进行了一项预先登记的调查实验，检验了女性政治家重新定位的声誉成本更明显这一假设。我发现，虽然频繁重新定位会受到负面评价，但在大多数结果衡量指标上，重新定位对女性候选人的负面影响并不比对男性候选人更明显。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

5.10

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8.30%

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