Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016

Rhodes, Jesse H.; Sharrow, Elizabeth; Greenlee, Jill S.; Nteta, Tatishe M.

doi:10.1080/10584609.2020.1753867

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“…Midway through data collection, on October 7, The Washington Post released the infamous “ Access Hollywood tape,” in which Donald Trump appears to describe a pattern of committing sexual assault. Although this event seemed to reduce support for his candidacy (e.g., Rhodes et al, 2020), we found no evidence in unreported analyses of this data set that this event moderated an effect of either racial demographic shift or economic threat on support for his candidacy.…”

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The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests

Stewart

Willer

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Prior theory and research suggest that threats to the status of White Americans may increase support for Donald Trump. Consistent with this, one previous experiment conducted in early 2016 documented this effect (Major et al., 2018), finding that making salient the declining White majority in the United States increased support for Trump’s presidential candidacy among White participants with high levels of ethnic identification. We report the results of five very similar experiments (total N = 3,076) also conducted in 2016, including one conducted on a national probability sample. The first experiment (conducted in January 2016) found that racial status threat increased Whites’ support for Trump. The other four (conducted from February to October 2016), however, all found null results, and an internal meta-analysis of the five studies found no significant main effect overall. Additionally, none of the studies found an interaction of racial demographic shift and ethnic identification in which racial demographic shift increased Trump support among high-identifying Whites. We conclude by discussing a variety of potential explanations for our findings, including (a) that racial status threats did not increase Whites’ Trump support, (b) that racial status threats increased Trump support early in the 2016 election cycle, but the role of this factor in Trump support declined over time, or (c) that this pattern is an example of a broader tendency of declining experimental treatment effects on candidate support over time in campaigns (Kalla & Broockman, 2018).

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The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests

Stewart

Willer

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…Neither does the endorsement of this principle entail, of course, real equality or even equity between men and women. However, socially the principle is well rooted as a value (Rhodes et al 2020;Scarborough, Sin, and Risman 2019).…”

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Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash

Anduiza

Rico

2022

American J Political Sci

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This article contends that sexism plays a fundamental role in the electoral rise of the far right, both as a predisposition and as a changing attitude. Using panel data from Spain, we show that modern sexism is indeed among the most important attitudinal predictors of voting for the far‐right party Vox. The results also show that internal individual changes in levels of modern sexism impact far‐right voting. Backlash attitudinal change, defined as increases in sexism occurring in a context of feminist momentum, contributed significantly to the recent emergence of the radical right. Our findings indicate that sexism is not a crystalized attitude but rather susceptible to showing short‐term changes with important political consequences. This highlights the importance of understudied context‐dependent individual dynamics of gender backlash in far‐right voting.

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“…To delineate our theory of implicit and explicit gender frames we draw on Rhodes et al (2020) and Mendelberg (2001) work on implicit racial priming. Gender frames reinforce broader feminine and masculine stereotypes by supporting male-dominated power structures, promoting gender hierarchies, and/or endorsing negative feminine stereotypes.…”

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Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications

Bauer

Taylor

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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We draw on research from gender stereotypes and mass communication to develop and test an innovative theoretical framework of implicit and explicit gender framing. This framework delineates how and when coverage in newspapers will report on female candidates differently than male candidates. Implicit gender frames subtly draw on masculine stereotypes to reinforce patriarchal power structures through their coverage of political candidates. Explicit gender frames are the overtly sexist “hair, hemlines, and husband” coverage women receive more frequently relative to men. We argue that the print news media will be more likely to rely on implicit gender frames to elucidate differences between women and men running for political office. Using an exhaustive content analysis of Senate campaign news coverage, we find important differences in the coverage of women and men running against one another. We also find the use of explicit gender frames to be especially common in all-female races. These differences in coverage, especially in all-women contests, can perpetuate stereotypic beliefs that women lack the qualifications needed for political office among voters, and stymie women’s progress toward parity in representation.

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Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016

Cited by 15 publications

References 81 publications

The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests

The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests

Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash

Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications

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