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Gender, Identity and Candidate Quality in Statewide Elections
Gender, Identity and Candidate Quality in Statewide Elections
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152111
- ISBN
- 9798384231899
- DDC
- 324
- 저자명
- Kennedy, Megan.
- 서명/저자
- Gender, Identity and Candidate Quality in Statewide Elections
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Pennsylvania State University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 141 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Nelson, Michael J.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약While women's representation in state-level offices has increased in the past few decades, it has lagged behind in executive offices, especially in women obtaining gubernatorial positions. 45 women, elected or appointed, have ever served as their state's governor, and nearly half the states have yet to elect a woman governor. Yet, this disparity is not consistent across all offices. In order to examine the electoral successes of women throughout state-level or statewide offices, I consider the effects of candidate quality across office type in elections for various offices: governor, US Senate, and state supreme courts.In the first chapter of my dissertation, I argue that disparities in voter perceptions of candidate qualifications between men and women running for governor negatively affect the success of women candidates at the election level, in that women must be more qualified relative to men in order to achieve a similar level of electoral success. This paper also introduces a more comprehensive measure of candidate quality that incorporates experiences from political, professional, and civic experiences that candidates frequently take on before running for high-level elected office.My second paper highlights the potential barriers that women, particularly Black women, face in gubernatorial elections and legislative elections. This study entails a survey experiment that manipulates candidate gender and race, levels of candidate quality, and type of office sought. The goals of this study are 1) to distinguish if and how voters evaluate qualifications differently in executive, rather than legislative, elections, 2) to evaluate voters' demands of quality for Black women relative to other candidates, and 3) to establish if women, overall, must be more qualified than men in order to gain similar support. I generally observe little support for the presence of stereotypes across this experiment, though I do find that race is a significant factor in determining voter perceptions of candidates.In the third chapter, we rely on a conjoint experiment to test the effects of candidate qualifications and gender stereotypes in U.S. state judicial elections. We find that, on average, women candidates are advantaged in judicial elections, though we find no evidence that citizens view women candidates as more well-qualified. While respondents evaluated male and female candidates with most prior professional experiences similarly, we observe important instances of gendered stereotyping in these elections, suggesting that researchers need to pay more attention to the effects of gender in judicial elections.
- 일반주제명
- State elections
- 일반주제명
- Women
- 일반주제명
- Governors
- 일반주제명
- Judicial elections
- 일반주제명
- Politics
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
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■520 ▼aWhile women's representation in state-level offices has increased in the past few decades, it has lagged behind in executive offices, especially in women obtaining gubernatorial positions. 45 women, elected or appointed, have ever served as their state's governor, and nearly half the states have yet to elect a woman governor. Yet, this disparity is not consistent across all offices. In order to examine the electoral successes of women throughout state-level or statewide offices, I consider the effects of candidate quality across office type in elections for various offices: governor, US Senate, and state supreme courts.In the first chapter of my dissertation, I argue that disparities in voter perceptions of candidate qualifications between men and women running for governor negatively affect the success of women candidates at the election level, in that women must be more qualified relative to men in order to achieve a similar level of electoral success. This paper also introduces a more comprehensive measure of candidate quality that incorporates experiences from political, professional, and civic experiences that candidates frequently take on before running for high-level elected office.My second paper highlights the potential barriers that women, particularly Black women, face in gubernatorial elections and legislative elections. This study entails a survey experiment that manipulates candidate gender and race, levels of candidate quality, and type of office sought. The goals of this study are 1) to distinguish if and how voters evaluate qualifications differently in executive, rather than legislative, elections, 2) to evaluate voters' demands of quality for Black women relative to other candidates, and 3) to establish if women, overall, must be more qualified than men in order to gain similar support. I generally observe little support for the presence of stereotypes across this experiment, though I do find that race is a significant factor in determining voter perceptions of candidates.In the third chapter, we rely on a conjoint experiment to test the effects of candidate qualifications and gender stereotypes in U.S. state judicial elections. We find that, on average, women candidates are advantaged in judicial elections, though we find no evidence that citizens view women candidates as more well-qualified. While respondents evaluated male and female candidates with most prior professional experiences similarly, we observe important instances of gendered stereotyping in these elections, suggesting that researchers need to pay more attention to the effects of gender in judicial elections.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0176.
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■650 4▼aJudicial elections
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■650 4▼aPolitical science
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■71020▼aThe Pennsylvania State University.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162908▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


