, therefore, female candidates may need to avoid conforming to their gender stereotypic image. However, we know little about … whether and to what extent female candidates are rewarded or punished when they deviate from their gender stereotypic image …. Since it is difficult to empirically examine the effect of gender stereotypes on voters' candidate evaluation by using the …

through a conjoint experiment based on the actual party manifestos in Japan's 2014 House of Representatives election. By …

using the case of Japan's mixed-member bicameral system. We find that the attributes preferred by voters are not entirely …