Glass Half Full or Half Empty: Does Optimism about Women’s Representation in Elected Office Matter?

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Women Politics & Policy Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI:10.1080/1554477X.2022.2081444

Patrick W. Kraft, Kathleen Dolan

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent years have seen an unprecedented number of women candidates running for public office. Does the resulting potential for greater gender equality in political representation have downstream effects on individual-level political attitudes, particularly among women voters? Given the partisan imbalance in women’s candidacies, do Republican and Democratic voters experience the growing gender parity in political representation differently? We explore these questions by employing a survey experiment in the 2018 Cooperative Election Study (CES) that manipulates the perceived trajectory of women’s representation in politics. Our results suggest that priming future optimism as compared to pessimism in women’s representation has little overall effect on the gender gap in political efficacy and interest, but that party affiliation can be a moderator in this context. We discuss the broader implications of our findings for women’s engagement in politics.

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半杯满还是半杯空:对当选公职的女性代表持乐观态度重要吗?

摘要近年来，竞选公职的女性候选人数量空前。由此产生的在政治代表中实现更大性别平等的潜力是否对个人层面的政治态度，特别是女性选民的政治态度产生了下游影响？考虑到女性候选人中的党派失衡，共和党和民主党选民在政治代表中的性别平等是否有所不同？我们通过在2018年合作选举研究（CES）中使用一项调查实验来探讨这些问题，该实验操纵了女性在政治中代表性的感知轨迹。我们的研究结果表明，与女性代表性中的悲观情绪相比，激发未来的乐观情绪对政治效能和利益方面的性别差距几乎没有总体影响，但在这种情况下，党派关系可以起到调节作用。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对女性参与政治的更广泛影响。

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Journal of Women Politics & Policy Multiple-

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1.80

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy explores women and their roles in the political process as well as key policy issues that impact women''s lives. Articles cover a range of tops about political processes from voters to leaders in interest groups and political parties, and office holders in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (including the increasingly relevant international bodies such as the European Union and World Trade Organization). They also examine the impact of public policies on women''s lives in areas such as tax and budget issues, poverty reduction and income security, education and employment, care giving, and health and human rights — including violence, safety, and reproductive rights — among many others. This multidisciplinary, international journal presents the work of social scientists — including political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy specialists — who study the world through a gendered lens and uncover how gender functions in the political and policy arenas. Throughout, the journal places a special emphasis on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and other dimensions of women''s experiences.