Voting for women in nonpartisan and partisan elections

Badas, Alex; Stauffer, Katelyn E.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2018.10.004

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“…Although research suggests that those who hold racist or sexist views might be reluctant to participate in an election that features all African-American candidates and two women in the runoff (Cassese and Barnes 2019; Cassese and Holman 2019; Piston 2010), we see no racial differences in who will not vote in the election or has not chosen a candidate yet. We do find that women took a longer time to decide in the runoff election, providing more evidence for a very complex gender affinity effect in low-information elections (Badas and Stauffer 2019;Cargile and Pringle 2019).…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Absent the partisan cue, factors, such as name recognition (Kam and Zechmeister 2013) and demographic characteristics of candidates, provide informational shortcuts for voters (Alvarez, Hall, and Levin 2018;Badas and Stauffer 2019;Bauer 2020). Race and gender stereotypes provide cues for voters to assess a candidate's issue competencies, personal traits, and, ultimately, candidates' ideology (Bauer 2015a;Cassese and Holman 2018;Holman 2015;McDermott 1998;White, Laird, and Allen 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although voters rely on partisanship to help them make decisions in national elections, this cue is often weak, useless, or missing entirely in local elections (Bernhard and Freeder 2018;Schaffner, Streb, and Wright 2001). As a result, voters rely on other heuristics like incumbency, experience, and stereotypes based on the candidate's identifiable demographic characteristics (Badas and Stauffer 2019;Bauer 2020;Bernhard and Anzia 2019;Crowder-Meyer, Gadarian, and Trounstine 2015;Trounstine 2011). What happens when voters must make decisions absent all traditional heuristics, that is, when electoral circumstances mean no variation in candidate party, gender, and race?…”

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Are You Picking Up What I Am Laying Down? Ideology in Low-Information Elections

Holman

Lay

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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In November 2017, New Orleans elected the first woman, and first Black woman, mayor in the city’s history. Voters were unable to rely on gender, race, or partisanship to differentiate between the candidates in the race. How, then, do voters make decisions absent traditional heuristics? Using an analysis of campaign materials and two-wave panel survey, we show that the candidates sent ideological signals with endorsements and issue foci and that voters responded by placing the candidates ideologically. Those voters who could not differentiate between the candidates’ ideologies were less likely to turn out to vote and took longer to decide in the elections. Using a new measure of relative ideological distance adopted for multicandidate races, we show that the distance between each voter and the nearest candidates correlated with vote choice. Our results add to our knowledge of voting behavior and the use of ideology in local elections.

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Are You Picking Up What I Am Laying Down? Ideology in Low-Information Elections

Holman

Lay

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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“…In state and national elections people usually use the general party position on issues to indicate who they should support (Petrocik 1996). However, in non-partisan elections, where the partisan cue is removed, candidate sex serves as a cue which can trigger perceptions about what issues a woman is better suited to handle in the mind of the voter (Badas & Stauffer 2019;McDermott 1997).…”

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“…While previous scholarship has been inconclusive about the presence of gender affinity, we consider possible conditions that might result in a female candidate benefiting from women voters using sex as a deciding factor especially given that a woman had never been elected in this city as mayor previously. Particularly, because in their study regarding support for women in non-partisan judicial elections Badas and Stauffer (2019) found that women voters are more prone to support women when other informational cues aside from candidate sex are not present.…”

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Context Not Candidate Sex: A Case Study of Female Vote Choice for Mayor

Cargile

Pringle

2019

Urban Affairs Review

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It is expected that women who run for office will receive significantly more support from women relative to male voters. However, evidence for this gender affinity has been mixed. In fact, recent experimental studies, and elections, have not found it to exist for female candidates. To test the presence of gender affinity, we examine the case where voters have the opportunity to elect the first female mayor in a major US city. Using exit poll data, we find that women (and men) who cited gender as an important quality in choosing a candidate were significantly more likely to support the female candidate, but only a small portion of voters felt gender was the most important candidate quality. For the majority of women, we find that there were confounding factors, such as uncertainty of the female candidate’s leadership skills and issue positions, which prevented her from gaining the majority she needed to win.

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Voter Bias and the Partisan Gender-Gap in Office

Saltzer¹,

McGrath

2022

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Voting for women in nonpartisan and partisan elections

Cited by 69 publications

References 53 publications

Are You Picking Up What I Am Laying Down? Ideology in Low-Information Elections

Are You Picking Up What I Am Laying Down? Ideology in Low-Information Elections

Context Not Candidate Sex: A Case Study of Female Vote Choice for Mayor

Voter Bias and the Partisan Gender-Gap in Office

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