For decades, scholars have uncovered evidence that male and female legislators' priorities
and preferences differ and that women's inclusion brings to elite-level politics a more …

Social role theory provides a framework to help understand the complexity of gender in the
political sphere. We demonstrate how SRT both helps to explain extant research findings …

As the number of women candidates for office in the US increases each election cycle,
scholars are confronted with questions about the impact of their sex on their chances for …

There are two distinct bodies of research on candidate gender. The first argues that voters
are not biased against female candidates. These studies are usually based on aggregate …

Previous research has demonstrated that in low-information elections voters compensate for
a lack of information by taking informational short-cuts, based on candidate cues, to make …

As scholarly interest in the concept of identity continues to grow, social identities are proving
to be crucially important for understanding contemporary life. Despite—or perhaps because …

Theories of low-information voting are used to examine the effect of candidate demographic
characteristics on voting behavior, specifically candidate gender. For voters in low …

A body of theoretical literature has developed that explains why historically disadvantaged
groups should be represented by members of those groups. Such representatives are …

There has been extensive research into the extent to which voters utilise short cuts based on
gender and race stereotypes when evaluating candidates, but relatively little is known about …

Claims of bias against female candidates abound in American politics. From superficial
media coverage to gender stereotypes held by voters, the conventional wisdom is that …