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Women, Parties, and Democracy in Germany
Wiliarty, Sarah - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140266
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Why Do Politicians Distribute Gifts During Campaigns? Survey Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Kramon, Eric - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133252
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The Politician and the Vote Factory : How Funding Sources Lead to an Efficient Election Campaign?
Foucault, Martial - 2010
database includes the level of funding, as well as the origin of the resources the politicians have at their disposal. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140277
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Are Women Reluctant Politicians? Attitudes Towards Serving in Elective Office at the Local Level
Ridge, Charlotte - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140548
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Personalized Candidate Campaigns in Open-Ballot PR Elections
Lutz, Georg - 2010
Open ballot PR election lead to a great amount of intra-party competition. In order to get elected, candidates have to make more votes than candidates from the same party and of course be on a party list that makes at least one seat; how candidates from other parties do is irrelevant. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140715
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Intersectional Stereotypes : How Gender, Race, and Partisan Stereotypes Interact in Evaluations of Political Candidates
Stalsburg, Brittany - 2010
scholars regarding how stereotypes based on race and gender can impact voters' perceptions of candidate traits and viability … science literature is replete with scholarship about gender or racial stereotypes, almost no research examines how these … stereotypes interact, and how evaluations of black women candidates, for example, might differ from white women or black men. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140870
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Gender and Roll Call Voting Behavior in Congress : A Cross-Chamber Analysis
Frederick, Brian P. - 2010
Numerous studies have examined the roll call voting behavior of women in Congress. Much of this scholarship has focused on whether female legislators tend to be more liberal than their male colleagues. However, most of this research has examined whether gender differences exist within a specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140952
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Gendered Perceptions and Political Candidacies : A Central Barrier to Women's Equality in Electoral Politics
Lawless, Jennifer L. - 2014
Based on the second wave of the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, we provide the first thorough analysis of how gender affects women and men's efficacy to run for office. Our findings reveal that, despite comparable credentials, backgrounds, and experiences, accomplished women are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069601
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The Influence of Term Limits on the Election of Women to State Legislatures
Caress, Stanley - 2016
This study investigates the effect of the imposition of term limits on the number of women elected to state legislatures in the United States. It uses a multivariate regression model, which differs from earlier works by utilizing a pooled, time-series data set of state legislatures, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008851
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Misperceptions and Effective Representation - The Impact of Electoral Systems, Political Parties and Individual Characteristics on Voters’ Perceptions of Party Positions
Dahlberg, Stefan - 2010
According to the responsible party, parties are assumed to present prospective policy programs on to which voters make their choices. The voters are assumed to vote for the party whose policy program is closest to their own policy preferences. The elections are in this context reckoned as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140217