¡Adelante, Mujeres!

Sampaio, Anna

doi:10.1080/10714839.2019.1593682

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“…Our theory about the combined effects of exclusion and policy threat offers competing expectations for the political ambition of women of color. On the one hand, Trump’s election boosted the political engagement of Black women (Lopez Bunyasi and Smith 2018) and Latinas (Sampaio 2019). This suggests that women of color may find messages about exclusion coupled with policy threat especially mobilizing.…”

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Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

Clayton

O’Brien²,

Piscopo³

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Previous work suggests that observing women officeholders increases women’s political ambition. Yet, jumps in women’s representation in the United States’ “Years of the Woman”—following the Anita Hill testimonies and the election of Donald Trump—are linked to women’s exclusion from political decision-making. Drawing on focus groups with prospective women candidates, we theorize that exclusion when combined with a gendered policy threat increases women’s political ambition. Using survey experiments replicated across different samples, we show that women who read about an all-male city council poised to legislate on women’s rights report increased ambition compared with their pretreatment ambition levels and to women in other treatment groups. Women’s increased sense of political efficacy drives these results. When women’s rights are not under discussion, men’s overrepresentation does not move (or even depresses) women’s ambition. Seeing the policy consequences of their exclusion causes some women to seek a seat at the table.

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Section: How Exclusion and Policy Threat Shape Ambitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

Clayton

O’Brien²,

Piscopo³

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…These challenges are especially problematic for Latina congressional candidates and officeholders in the United States because they occur at the same time that Latinas are making important political gains at the national level. In particular, Latinas figured prominently in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections as major-party candidates for political office, as political organizers, and as a key proportion of the electorate in states with competitive statewide and national races-all while reports of targeted harassment and violence aimed at national candidates and officeholders were increasing (Sampaio 2019(Sampaio , 2021. A record number of Latinas ran for national office as major-party candidates and won in 2018, 2020, and 2022.…”

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