This research examined an attitudinal explanation of the gender gap, by which differences in the attitudes that men and women hold on social and political issues and in the positions that candidates take on these issues can produce gender gaps in voting. Two experiments portraying a hypothetical...

Attitudes toward providing welfare assistance for the poor were predicted to be rooted in two important social values, communalism and the work ethic. Communalism was hypothesized to underlie favorable welfare attitudes, and the work ethic to underlie unfavorable welfare attitudes. To test these...