Angelia Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelia Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0978-1045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethnic affinities and political engagement: An experimental study of Chinese-Canadian candidates and voters
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada
Affinity theory suggests that 2SLGBTQI+ candidates might empower and motivate 2SLGBTQI+ voters to become more politically engaged because they demonstrate that the political system is open to queer participation and voices. However, most research has focused on high-profile 2SLGBTQI+ candidates. Little attention has been paid to the impact of local candidates, particularly in a multi-party parliamentary system. This paper explores this candidate–…
Where to run? Racialized minority affinities for in-group candidate districts in Canada
Drawing from an original survey quasi-experiment presenting respondents with fictional candidate slates varying in ethnic composition, this study examines the impact of racialized affinity on preferences for where to run for office. Prior research shows that racialized candidates typically run in districts with a high in-group ethnic population, and prior in-group candidates or elected officials. But these findings are largely based on observed o…
Holding Back the Race Card: Black Candidates, Twitter, and the 2021 Canadian Election - Corrigendum
Holding Back the Race Card: Black Candidates, Twitter, and the 2021 Canadian Election
Politicians carefully construct a public persona that is authentic to who they are as individuals but also addresses voter expectations. Many Black candidates follow a deracialization strategy in which they downplay their racial identities to seek voter support while some follow a racial distinction strategy in which they highlight their racial identities but situate them within hegemonic national narratives. But questions remain about whether a …
Getting straight to the source: Who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia
Journalists have the power to shape the public’s perception of new premiers. They also share that power with the sources they interview. Sourcing is therefore important when making claims about the news media’s role in reproducing gender biases in representations of political leaders. We examine the question of sourcing through an analysis of newspaper coverage of 22 newly elected women and men subnational government leaders in Australia and Cana…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Tolerating the trolls? Gendered perceptions of online harassment of politicians in Canada
Online harassment of politicians has become a major issue, but one that is particularly problematic for women politicians because of its potentially misogynistic tone. Despite increasing public attention to this issue, scholars cannot say with any authority how online harassment affects the decisions and behaviors of different types of candidates or what it means for candidate emergence. To explore perceptions of online harassment of Canadian pol…
Avoiding the spotlight: Public scrutiny, moral regulation, and LGBTQ candidate deterrence
LGBTQ politicians play an important role in advancing LGBTQ interests in government and in educating their fellow lawmakers about LGBTQ issues. But their under-representation in legislatures limits their opportunities to influence public policy. Historically negative attitudes toward sexual minorities suggest that public scrutiny could be an important barrier to candidacy for LGBTQ individuals. This study explores perceptions of public scrutiny a…
Scripted Messengers: How Party Discipline and Branding Turn Election Candidates and Legislators into Brand Ambassadors
Political parties with strict party discipline are well-placed to demand that their election candidates and legislators promote the party brand. The franchise-franchisee relationship causes representatives to relinquish individual expression in exchange for centralized party messaging. This article looks at how a strategic desire for party unity combines with internal brand management to turn lower-ranking politicians in a parliamentary system in…
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Tolerating the trolls? Gendered perceptions of online harassment of politicians in Canada
Online harassment of politicians has become a major issue, but one that is particularly problematic for women politicians because of its potentially misogynistic tone. Despite increasing public attention to this issue, scholars cannot say with any authority how online harassment affects the decisions and behaviors of different types of candidates or what it means for candidate emergence. To explore perceptions of online harassment of Canadian pol…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Scripted Messengers: How Party Discipline and Branding Turn Election Candidates and Legislators into Brand Ambassadors
Political parties with strict party discipline are well-placed to demand that their election candidates and legislators promote the party brand. The franchise-franchisee relationship causes representatives to relinquish individual expression in exchange for centralized party messaging. This article looks at how a strategic desire for party unity combines with internal brand management to turn lower-ranking politicians in a parliamentary system in…
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Avoiding the spotlight: Public scrutiny, moral regulation, and LGBTQ candidate deterrence
LGBTQ politicians play an important role in advancing LGBTQ interests in government and in educating their fellow lawmakers about LGBTQ issues. But their under-representation in legislatures limits their opportunities to influence public policy. Historically negative attitudes toward sexual minorities suggest that public scrutiny could be an important barrier to candidacy for LGBTQ individuals. This study explores perceptions of public scrutiny a…
Holding Back the Race Card: Black Candidates, Twitter, and the 2021 Canadian Election - Corrigendum
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Avoiding the spotlight: Public scrutiny, moral regulation, and LGBTQ candidate deterrence
LGBTQ politicians play an important role in advancing LGBTQ interests in government and in educating their fellow lawmakers about LGBTQ issues. But their under-representation in legislatures limits their opportunities to influence public policy. Historically negative attitudes toward sexual minorities suggest that public scrutiny could be an important barrier to candidacy for LGBTQ individuals. This study explores perceptions of public scrutiny a…
Scripted Messengers: How Party Discipline and Branding Turn Election Candidates and Legislators into Brand Ambassadors
Political parties with strict party discipline are well-placed to demand that their election candidates and legislators promote the party brand. The franchise-franchisee relationship causes representatives to relinquish individual expression in exchange for centralized party messaging. This article looks at how a strategic desire for party unity combines with internal brand management to turn lower-ranking politicians in a parliamentary system in…
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Tolerating the trolls? Gendered perceptions of online harassment of politicians in Canada
Online harassment of politicians has become a major issue, but one that is particularly problematic for women politicians because of its potentially misogynistic tone. Despite increasing public attention to this issue, scholars cannot say with any authority how online harassment affects the decisions and behaviors of different types of candidates or what it means for candidate emergence. To explore perceptions of online harassment of Canadian pol…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Holding Back the Race Card: Black Candidates, Twitter, and the 2021 Canadian Election
Politicians carefully construct a public persona that is authentic to who they are as individuals but also addresses voter expectations. Many Black candidates follow a deracialization strategy in which they downplay their racial identities to seek voter support while some follow a racial distinction strategy in which they highlight their racial identities but situate them within hegemonic national narratives. But questions remain about whether a …
Getting straight to the source: Who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia
Journalists have the power to shape the public’s perception of new premiers. They also share that power with the sources they interview. Sourcing is therefore important when making claims about the news media’s role in reproducing gender biases in representations of political leaders. We examine the question of sourcing through an analysis of newspaper coverage of 22 newly elected women and men subnational government leaders in Australia and Cana…
Holding Back the Race Card: Black Candidates, Twitter, and the 2021 Canadian Election - Corrigendum
Ethnic affinities and political engagement: An experimental study of Chinese-Canadian candidates and voters
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada
Affinity theory suggests that 2SLGBTQI+ candidates might empower and motivate 2SLGBTQI+ voters to become more politically engaged because they demonstrate that the political system is open to queer participation and voices. However, most research has focused on high-profile 2SLGBTQI+ candidates. Little attention has been paid to the impact of local candidates, particularly in a multi-party parliamentary system. This paper explores this candidate–…
Where to run? Racialized minority affinities for in-group candidate districts in Canada
Drawing from an original survey quasi-experiment presenting respondents with fictional candidate slates varying in ethnic composition, this study examines the impact of racialized affinity on preferences for where to run for office. Prior research shows that racialized candidates typically run in districts with a high in-group ethnic population, and prior in-group candidates or elected officials. But these findings are largely based on observed o…
Political science (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (14 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Newspaper (8 works)