The Partisan GapPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0006
Laurel Elder
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Laurel Elder","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Many news stories have highlighted the Republican Party’s problem with women, focusing their concern on the persistent gender gap in vote choice, with women typically supporting Democratic candidates over Republican candidates. Efforts have been made by the Republican Party to help their candidates, office holders, and staffers try to combat the gender gap. This book argues that the lack of women among Republicans in elective office is actually a much bigger and more consequential “woman problem” as it holds impacts for policy-making, claims of representation, and the viability of the party. The conclusion offers predictions as to the future of the partisan gap among women in elective office and explores its profound consequences for American electoral politics and policy-making.","PeriodicalId":446212,"journal":{"name":"The Partisan Gap","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117271109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Partisan GapPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0003
Laurel Elder
{"title":"The Growing Chasm","authors":"Laurel Elder","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 draws on several theoretical frameworks—including the ideological, racial, and regional realignment of the parties as well as the contrasting cultures of the parties—to explore the emergence and growth of the partisan gap among women state legislators. The chapter employs data drawn from a number of sources, most prominently the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), to compare the current representation of Republican and Democratic women in state legislatures, broken down by state and geographic region, as well as the changing dynamics in their representation over the past several decades. Additionally, the chapter utilizes multivariate analyses to simultaneously explore the role of ideology, race, and party recruitment in explaining variations in the representation of Democratic and Republican women in state legislatures.","PeriodicalId":446212,"journal":{"name":"The Partisan Gap","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114326900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Partisan GapPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10728.003.0003
Laurel Elder
{"title":"A Tale of Two Parties","authors":"Laurel Elder","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/10728.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10728.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 outlines the four theoretical frameworks used to assess the emergence and causes of the partisan gap among women in elective office in the United States. The first theoretical framework relates to the evolving ideologies of the two major parties. It is grounded in the argument that the parties have changed ideologically in significant ways, which have led to divergent growth rates for Democratic and Republican women legislators. The second theoretical framework explores how the regional realignment of the parties has contributed to the partisan gap among women officeholders at the state and national levels. The third framework explores the ways that the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and partisanship has driven the emergence and growth of the partisan gap. The final framework focuses on the parties’ distinctive cultures and their impact on the recruitment of women.","PeriodicalId":446212,"journal":{"name":"The Partisan Gap","volume":"33 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133106953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Partisan GapPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0004
Laurel Elder
{"title":"Whither Republican Women?","authors":"Laurel Elder","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 illustrates how the regional and racial realignment of the parties has contributed to the widening partisan gap among women in Congress. By charting changes in the partisan and gender composition of the Democratic and Republican congressional delegations, this chapter shows that Republican women have struggled to increase their numbers as their party developed a stronghold in the South. Additionally, the comparative success of women of color as candidates—their higher levels of representation among elected official of color compared with white women’s representation among white elected officials—has played a modest but consistent role behind the partisan gap in Congress. The chapter also presents evidence that the Democratic Party has been more successful than the Republican Party in tapping into the growing pool of highly educated, professional women. In contrast, Republican women are heavily reliant on the state legislative pipeline to Congress, significantly more so than Democratic women or men of either party. This contributes to the partisan gap, and the stalled progress of Republican women in particular, since their numbers in state legislatures have plateaued and in more than a quarter of states, actually declined.","PeriodicalId":446212,"journal":{"name":"The Partisan Gap","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131592588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Partisan GapPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0005
Laurel Elder
{"title":"Left Out of the Party","authors":"Laurel Elder","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804818.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on interviews and other qualitative data, chapter 4 argues that the Democratic Party’s more open and decentralized culture has allowed party elites and the party’s organizational structure to more easily accommodate demands for political equality from women and to develop a much more integrated relationship with an extended network of groups committed to electing more women. In contrast, the Republican Party’s hierarchical, top-down culture, which embraces individualism, rejects group-based claims, and holds a strong commitment to gender-neutral recruiting, has made it very difficult for the party and its extended network to recruit women candidates. There is also a self-reinforcing dynamic at work. Women in elective office tend to be more committed than men to the idea that recruiting more women is a priority, and also tend to have more women in their social networks, where much recruitment takes place. This holds true for women in both parties, but with each passing election cycle, there are quite simply more Democratic women than Republican women in positions to carry out this recruitment work.","PeriodicalId":446212,"journal":{"name":"The Partisan Gap","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127736311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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