Voting the Gender Gap - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252075250 ISBN 13 : 9780252075254

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the history, complexity, and ways of analyzing the gender gap; the gender gap in relation to partisanship; motherhood, ethnicity, and the impact of parental status on the gender gap; and the gender gap in races involving female candidates. Voting the Gender Gap analyzes trends in voting while probing how women's political empowerment and gender affect American politics and the electoral process.

Contributors are Susan J. Carroll, Erin Cassese, Cal Clark, Janet M. Clark, M. Margaret Conway, Kathleen A. Dolan, Laurel Elder, Kathleen A. Frankovic, Steven Greene, Leonie Huddy, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Barbara Norrander, Margie Omero, and Lois Duke Whitaker.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lois Duke Whitaker is a professor of political science at Georgia Southern University. She is the editor of Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders? and the coeditor of The Democrats Must Lead: The Case for a Progressive Democratic Party.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252075250
• ISBN 13: 9780252075254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Whitaker Lois Duke
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