A partisan gap in the supply of female potential candidates in the United States

A partisan disparity in women representatives in the US House emerged in the 1980s and has continued to grow in magnitude. We show that this pattern closely mirrors the emergence of a partisan disparity in the proportion of women in the US public with the typical characteristics of high-level office...

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Main Authors: Melody Crowder-Meyer, Benjamin E. Lauderdale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-05-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168014537230