Rosalyn Cooperman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1598941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalyn Cooperman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooperman |
| SIGNATURE | COOPERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5470-3105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hostile Sexism and the 2024 Blame Game
In three presidential election cycles from 2016 to 2024, the Democratic Party nominated two women, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and one man, Joe Biden. Each ran against the Republican Party’s repeat nominee, Donald Trump, with Clinton and Harris losing and Biden winning. This paper examines the role that sexism plays when women lose elections, focusing on the narratives used to explain Democrats’ (and Harris’s) loss in 2024. Using original …
Gender and Party Polarization in the US Congress
The history and practice of party polarization in Congress is a gendered concept. Men have comprised the overwhelming majority of legislators from both parties, served as their party’s leaders, and dominated the party caucuses. As women and women of color have increased their presence in the institution, particularly among Democrats, gender and race have emerged as important themes in understanding party polarization in contemporary congresses. I…
The life of the parties
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump secured their respective party’s 2016 nominations only after raucous, spirited debates among delegates at the start of each party convention. Groups and their preferred candidates behaved consistently with the policy demanders view of parties, which identifies parties as comprised of coalitions of groups with strong policy preferences that negotiate with one another for influence in the party decision-making and p…
Standing on Their Shoulders
Although 2018 has been called another “Year of the Woman,” increases in women’s representation that year were party-specific. Historically, women’s organizations fought to expand women’s representation in both parties; however, the fruit of these efforts is currently concentrated among Democrats. Indeed, women contributed funds in record numbers in 2018, but the majority of women donors supported Democratic women candidates (Haley 2018), and libe…
Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies
Feminist scholars and activists alike have asked for decades whether a democracy that excludes women from participating equally in democratic decision-making structures can be considered legitimate
Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions
Parties need to win elections, but they also heed the policy preferences of activists to provide the incentive to mobilize. Moving beyond the debate as to whether parties as a whole are policy or office driven, we examine groups within parties and identify different factions that place differential emphasis on office-seeking versus policy-demanding. Using data from the 2012 Convention Delegate Study of Democratic and Republican Party national del…
Can’t Buy Them Love
Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women? We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women’s political action committees to answer this question. We theorize that the intense policy demanders in each party have built party cultures with substantively different orientations toward women’s political involvement. These cultures shape party elites’ behavior and influence responsivene…
Teaching Race and Revolution
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Women in the Club
Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics
Party activists have played a leading role in "conflict extension"-the polarization of the parties along multiple issue dimensions-in contemporary American politics. We argue that open nomination systems and the ambitious politicians competing within those systems encourage activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions to become involved in party politics, thus motivating candidates to take noncentrist positions on a range of issu…
Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics
Party activists have played a leading role in "conflict extension"-the polarization of the parties along multiple issue dimensions-in contemporary American politics. We argue that open nomination systems and the ambitious politicians competing within those systems encourage activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions to become involved in party politics, thus motivating candidates to take noncentrist positions on a range of issu…
Can’t Buy Them Love
Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women? We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women’s political action committees to answer this question. We theorize that the intense policy demanders in each party have built party cultures with substantively different orientations toward women’s political involvement. These cultures shape party elites’ behavior and influence responsivene…
Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies
Feminist scholars and activists alike have asked for decades whether a democracy that excludes women from participating equally in democratic decision-making structures can be considered legitimate
Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions
Parties need to win elections, but they also heed the policy preferences of activists to provide the incentive to mobilize. Moving beyond the debate as to whether parties as a whole are policy or office driven, we examine groups within parties and identify different factions that place differential emphasis on office-seeking versus policy-demanding. Using data from the 2012 Convention Delegate Study of Democratic and Republican Party national del…
Women in the Club
The life of the parties
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump secured their respective party’s 2016 nominations only after raucous, spirited debates among delegates at the start of each party convention. Groups and their preferred candidates behaved consistently with the policy demanders view of parties, which identifies parties as comprised of coalitions of groups with strong policy preferences that negotiate with one another for influence in the party decision-making and p…
Teaching Race and Revolution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics
Party activists have played a leading role in "conflict extension"-the polarization of the parties along multiple issue dimensions-in contemporary American politics. We argue that open nomination systems and the ambitious politicians competing within those systems encourage activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions to become involved in party politics, thus motivating candidates to take noncentrist positions on a range of issu…
Women in the Club
Teaching Race and Revolution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Can’t Buy Them Love
Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women? We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women’s political action committees to answer this question. We theorize that the intense policy demanders in each party have built party cultures with substantively different orientations toward women’s political involvement. These cultures shape party elites’ behavior and influence responsivene…
Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions
Parties need to win elections, but they also heed the policy preferences of activists to provide the incentive to mobilize. Moving beyond the debate as to whether parties as a whole are policy or office driven, we examine groups within parties and identify different factions that place differential emphasis on office-seeking versus policy-demanding. Using data from the 2012 Convention Delegate Study of Democratic and Republican Party national del…
Standing on Their Shoulders
Although 2018 has been called another “Year of the Woman,” increases in women’s representation that year were party-specific. Historically, women’s organizations fought to expand women’s representation in both parties; however, the fruit of these efforts is currently concentrated among Democrats. Indeed, women contributed funds in record numbers in 2018, but the majority of women donors supported Democratic women candidates (Haley 2018), and libe…
Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies
Feminist scholars and activists alike have asked for decades whether a democracy that excludes women from participating equally in democratic decision-making structures can be considered legitimate
The life of the parties
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump secured their respective party’s 2016 nominations only after raucous, spirited debates among delegates at the start of each party convention. Groups and their preferred candidates behaved consistently with the policy demanders view of parties, which identifies parties as comprised of coalitions of groups with strong policy preferences that negotiate with one another for influence in the party decision-making and p…
Gender and Party Polarization in the US Congress
The history and practice of party polarization in Congress is a gendered concept. Men have comprised the overwhelming majority of legislators from both parties, served as their party’s leaders, and dominated the party caucuses. As women and women of color have increased their presence in the institution, particularly among Democrats, gender and race have emerged as important themes in understanding party polarization in contemporary congresses. I…
Hostile Sexism and the 2024 Blame Game
In three presidential election cycles from 2016 to 2024, the Democratic Party nominated two women, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and one man, Joe Biden. Each ran against the Republican Party’s repeat nominee, Donald Trump, with Clinton and Harris losing and Biden winning. This paper examines the role that sexism plays when women lose elections, focusing on the narratives used to explain Democrats’ (and Harris’s) loss in 2024. Using original …
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