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Selected Works of Elizabeth Sharrow
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Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2016)
  • Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Dara Z Strolovitch, Princeton University
  • Michael T Heaney, University of Michigan
  • Seth E Masket, University of Denver
  • Joanne M Miller, University of Minnesota
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Abstract
Activists in the Democratic and Republican parties have distinct concerns about women’s place in American politics and society. These views lead them to evaluate female candidates through different ideological lenses that are conditioned, in part, on their divergent attitudes about gender.  We explore the implications of these diverging lenses through an examination of the 2008 candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, using data from an original survey of Democratic and Republican National Convention delegates.  We find that delegate sex did not affect their evaluations but that evaluations were influenced by the interaction of partisanship and attitudes about women’s roles.    
Keywords
  • Hillary Clinton,
  • Sarah Palin,
  • 2008 election,
  • women,
  • gender,
  • partisan polarization,
  • feminism,
  • presidential nominations,
  • nominating conventions,
  • party delegates
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 27, 2016
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2016.1223444
Citation Information
Elizabeth Sharrow, Dara Z Strolovitch, Michael T Heaney, Seth E Masket, et al.. "Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists" Journal of Women, Politics & Policy Vol. 37 Iss. 4 (2016) p. 394 - 416 ISSN: 1554-477X (Print) 1554-4788 (Online)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_sharrow/1/