Gender and vote revelation strategy in the United States Congress.
Legislators approach each election as if they might lose. Electoral insecurity coupled with gender stereotypes held by voters and lawmakers alike may lead female legislators to communicate more voting decisions to voters as a signal of their policy-driven efforts. Using an original data-set of over...
| Published in: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 626 - 641 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2016
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