The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't
WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices

From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades.

In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women’s representation exists, and why it’s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women’s political representation.

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The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't
WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices

From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades.

In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women’s representation exists, and why it’s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women’s political representation.

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The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

by Laurel Elder
The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't

by Laurel Elder

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WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices

From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades.

In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women’s representation exists, and why it’s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women’s political representation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479804818
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 07/27/2021
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Laurel Elder is Professor of Political Science at Hartwick College in New York. She is the co-author of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective and The Politics of Parenthood: Causes and Consequences of the Politicization and Polarization of the American Family.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: The Partisan Dynamics of Women's Representation 1

1 A Tale of Two Parties: The Changing Electoral Environment 27

2 The Growing Chasm: Women in State Legislatures 49

3 Whither Republican Women? Women in Congress 89

4 Left Out of the Party: Party Culture and the Recruitment of Women Candidates 117

Conclusion: The Future of the Partisan Gap among Women in Office 155

Acknowledgments 185

Notes 189

Bibliography 203

Index 225

About the Author 229

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