The Policy Priorities of African American Women in State Legislatures

Barrett, Edith J.

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“…Female candidates are likely to have records that confer competence in the area of women's issues, and male candidates are likely to have records that confer competence in the area of men's issues. Female are more likely to have care professions and female politicians are more likely to work on these issues (Barrett, 1995;Poggione, 2005;Swers, 1998Swers, , 2002Thomas, 1994;Thomas & Welch, 1991). Female candidates may also be better able to capture women's issues because of voters' stereotypes.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…As a consequence, females and males differ in their issue preferences and concerns particularly as they relate to compassion issues and use of force (for example see Kaufmann & Petrocik, 1999;Norrander, 2008). Even among legislators, females are more likely to work on women's issues, whether measured by bill introductions, roll call votes, or surveys of legislators (Barrett, 1995;Poggione, 2005;Swers, 1998Swers, , 2002Thomas, 1994;Thomas & Welch, 1991).…”

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Gender themes in state legislative candidates’ websites

Herrick

2016

The Social Science Journal

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a b s t r a c tFemale candidates can represent women by campaigning on issues that have traditionally been the purview of women, and motivating their opponents to do likewise. Although recent research on gubernatorial and congressional elections has found relatively little difference between male and female candidates in their campaign issues, it is possible that greater differences could be found at the state level. This article examines the effects of state legislative candidates' sex and party and opponents' sex on whether candidates campaign on women's or men's issues. It does so by examining campaign websites in three states in 2012: Alaska, Colorado, and Minnesota. The article finds that female, and candidates with female opponents focus more on women's issues in their campaigns than do male candidates and those running against male candidates. In addition, it finds that although Democrats too are more likely to campaign on women's issues, party does not explain away the sex differences. Also as predicted, the article finds little sex difference in the degree to which candidates focus on men's issues, but Republicans are more likely to campaign on men's issues than are Democrats.

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confidence: 94%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Gender themes in state legislative candidates’ websites

Herrick

2016

The Social Science Journal

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“…Much of the early research in this area focused on the voting behavior or legislative decisions of individuals whose identity embodies this intersection (Barrett 1995(Barrett , 1997Gay and Tate 1998). However, the work of McConnaughy and White (2011) take this work in a new direction.…”

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confidence: 96%

Data, Methods, and Theoretical Implications

Hannagan

Schneider

Greenlee

2012

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Within the subfields of political psychology and the study of gender, the introduction of new data collection efforts, methodologies, and theoretical approaches are transforming our understandings of these two fields and the places at which they intersect. In this article we present an overview of the research that was presented at a National Science Foundation (NSF) (#SES-1014854) funded conference “New Research on Gender in Political Psychology” at Rutgers University in March 2011. This scholarship represents the expanding questions and approaches that enhance our understanding of gender within political psychology. As a result, we suggest that further innovation is needed with regard to theory and methods to understand better how gender shapes the political attitudes and actions of individuals. Our discussion here covers the use of data, interdisciplinary methods, and intersectionality to study gender. We conclude with thoughts about the theoretical implications of this recent scholarship and the future of political science research on gender.

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“…In a study of American legislators, Barrett (1995) finds distinctive race-and gender-based preferences for a range of policy issues. Particularly in the case of a stigmatized condition such as HIV, risk may be widely discussed in ethnic or racial terms (Cohen 1999, Lieberman 2009).…”

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Descriptive representation and AIDS policy in South Africa

Lieberman

2012

Contemporary Politics

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The global AIDS pandemic raises key questions with respect to Pitkin's seminal concerns for the descriptive and substantive representation of diverse citizen interests. Specifically, are there 'group interests' for AIDS-related policies, and are they represented by political leaders? One might expect all politicians to prioritize a response to the global pandemic as a matter of public interest, especially in high prevalence countries. Alternatively, because recognizable sub-groups are affected differently, theories of representation imply that leader preferences should vary along these lines. The author explores the local political representation of AIDS-related interests within the context of the high prevalence, heterogeneous, and democratic society of South Africa. Through analysis of an original survey of the attitudes and preferences of local cancillors in Eastern Cape Province, he found that descriptive representation is associated with substantive representation: politicians express AIDS policy preferences in accordance with race-and gender-based interests, albeit in different ways.

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The Policy Priorities of African American Women in State Legislatures

Cited by 120 publications

References 15 publications

Gender themes in state legislative candidates’ websites

Gender themes in state legislative candidates’ websites

Data, Methods, and Theoretical Implications

Descriptive representation and AIDS policy in South Africa

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