Catherine Reyes-Housholder
Biographic Data
| ID | 802792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Reyes-Housholder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyes-Housholder |
| SIGNATURE | REYES-HOUSHOLDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4432-3376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gender and Presidential Vote Choice in Latin America
Why do women and men vote differently in presidential elections? Much research on gender and vote choice has focused on the United States and Western Europe, with less attention to the Global South. We develop a theory of sex gaps in presidential voting, which shows how ideology, feminism, and gendered personalities may help explain them. To test this, we designed and fielded surveys for presidential elections in Chile in 2021, Brazil in 2022, an…
Antifeminism and backlash politics
What drives antifeminist attitudes, and how do they shape political behavior? This article argues that in contexts of major feminist advances, antifeminist attitudes can emerge and broadly influence political behavior. With both a strong feminist mobilization and the rise of far-right forces, Chile represents a most-likely case for testing theories of cultural backlash. We develop a novel measure of antifeminism at the mass level and analyze face…
The Puzzle of Chile’s Resilient Support for Gender Parity
Chile’s 2021–22 Constitutional Convention was the first in the world to feature mechanisms that guaranteed gender parity among constituents (Arce and Suárez-Cao 2021). This was not an easy win. Feminist activists and women politicians pushed for gender parity in 2020-21 in a country that had adopted gender quotas relatively late (Figueroa 2021; Reyes-Housholder, Suárez-Cao, and Le Foulon 2023; Suárez-Cao 2023; personal interview #1, April 21, 202…
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in…
Gendered Incentives, Party Support, and Viable Female Presidential Candidates in Latin America
Women hold less than 10 percent of chief executive positions worldwide. Understanding how women democratically access these posts requires theorizing how they gain resources from established parties to mount viable electoral campaigns. We argue that in stable regimes marked by representational malaise parties respond to gendered incentives and nominate female candidates. Drawing on Latin American cases, we show how diverse parties nominated women…
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice
A Theory of Gender’s Role on Presidential Approval Ratings in Corrupt Times
The rise of female chief executives appears to signal gender progress, but this may not be unequivocally so. This article advances a contextual theory for the role of gender on leaders’ approval ratings, a key measure of “success” and source of executive power. I argue that because of gendered expectations and discourse, female presidents will receive lower approval ratings in contexts of corruption. The study focuses on Latin America, known for …
Chile 2018: Desafíos al poder de género desde la calle hasta La Moneda
Poniendo el foco en el feminismo, este artículo describe la situación política, social y económica de Chile durante el año 2018. Se argumenta que durante el año en estudio se cuestionó, en diversos espacios de la sociedad chilena, la forma en que se distribuye el poder entre hombres y mujeres. Se revisa también la tercera ola de protestas feminista, caracterizada por el accionar de mujeres universitarias a lo largo de todo el país, cuyas manifest…
A Constituency Theory for the Conditional Impact of Female Presidents
Women Mobilizing Women: Candidates’ Strategies for Winning the Presidency
Latin America has elected more female presidents than any other region in the world, yet dominant theories on campaigning tend to ignore gender. In addressing this lacuna, this article argues that the widespread belief that women are better at mobilizing women means that female candidates tend to invest more significant effort into cultivating a core constituency of women on the basis of gender identity. In contrast, male candidates tend to deleg…
Citizen responses to female executives: Is it sex, novelty or both
Women increasingly have been elected to executive office – both at the national and subnational level – in countries throughout the world. Yet, we know little about the effects that the election of a woman to executive office has on citizen attitudes, political engagement, or political participation. In this paper, we argue that the election of a woman to an executive could have effects through the presence of a woman in the executive, the novelt…
Presidentas Rise: Consequences for Women in Cabinets
Since 1999, women have democratically won the presidency eight times in Latin America and have named hundreds of ministers. This study argues that under certain conditions,presidentasare more likely than male presidents to improve women's cabinet representation. Two mechanisms,presidentamandates and gendered networks, appear to drive the relationship. Furthermore, because the pool of ministerial candidates is shallower for women than for men,pres…
A Theory of Gender’s Role on Presidential Approval Ratings in Corrupt Times
The rise of female chief executives appears to signal gender progress, but this may not be unequivocally so. This article advances a contextual theory for the role of gender on leaders’ approval ratings, a key measure of “success” and source of executive power. I argue that because of gendered expectations and discourse, female presidents will receive lower approval ratings in contexts of corruption. The study focuses on Latin America, known for …
Citizen responses to female executives: Is it sex, novelty or both
Women increasingly have been elected to executive office – both at the national and subnational level – in countries throughout the world. Yet, we know little about the effects that the election of a woman to executive office has on citizen attitudes, political engagement, or political participation. In this paper, we argue that the election of a woman to an executive could have effects through the presence of a woman in the executive, the novelt…
Presidentas Rise: Consequences for Women in Cabinets
Since 1999, women have democratically won the presidency eight times in Latin America and have named hundreds of ministers. This study argues that under certain conditions,presidentasare more likely than male presidents to improve women's cabinet representation. Two mechanisms,presidentamandates and gendered networks, appear to drive the relationship. Furthermore, because the pool of ministerial candidates is shallower for women than for men,pres…
Chile 2018: Desafíos al poder de género desde la calle hasta La Moneda
Poniendo el foco en el feminismo, este artículo describe la situación política, social y económica de Chile durante el año 2018. Se argumenta que durante el año en estudio se cuestionó, en diversos espacios de la sociedad chilena, la forma en que se distribuye el poder entre hombres y mujeres. Se revisa también la tercera ola de protestas feminista, caracterizada por el accionar de mujeres universitarias a lo largo de todo el país, cuyas manifest…
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice
A Constituency Theory for the Conditional Impact of Female Presidents
Women Mobilizing Women: Candidates’ Strategies for Winning the Presidency
Latin America has elected more female presidents than any other region in the world, yet dominant theories on campaigning tend to ignore gender. In addressing this lacuna, this article argues that the widespread belief that women are better at mobilizing women means that female candidates tend to invest more significant effort into cultivating a core constituency of women on the basis of gender identity. In contrast, male candidates tend to deleg…
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in…
Gendered Incentives, Party Support, and Viable Female Presidential Candidates in Latin America
Women hold less than 10 percent of chief executive positions worldwide. Understanding how women democratically access these posts requires theorizing how they gain resources from established parties to mount viable electoral campaigns. We argue that in stable regimes marked by representational malaise parties respond to gendered incentives and nominate female candidates. Drawing on Latin American cases, we show how diverse parties nominated women…
Presidentas Rise: Consequences for Women in Cabinets
Since 1999, women have democratically won the presidency eight times in Latin America and have named hundreds of ministers. This study argues that under certain conditions,presidentasare more likely than male presidents to improve women's cabinet representation. Two mechanisms,presidentamandates and gendered networks, appear to drive the relationship. Furthermore, because the pool of ministerial candidates is shallower for women than for men,pres…
Citizen responses to female executives: Is it sex, novelty or both
Women increasingly have been elected to executive office – both at the national and subnational level – in countries throughout the world. Yet, we know little about the effects that the election of a woman to executive office has on citizen attitudes, political engagement, or political participation. In this paper, we argue that the election of a woman to an executive could have effects through the presence of a woman in the executive, the novelt…
Women Mobilizing Women: Candidates’ Strategies for Winning the Presidency
Latin America has elected more female presidents than any other region in the world, yet dominant theories on campaigning tend to ignore gender. In addressing this lacuna, this article argues that the widespread belief that women are better at mobilizing women means that female candidates tend to invest more significant effort into cultivating a core constituency of women on the basis of gender identity. In contrast, male candidates tend to deleg…
Chile 2018: Desafíos al poder de género desde la calle hasta La Moneda
Poniendo el foco en el feminismo, este artículo describe la situación política, social y económica de Chile durante el año 2018. Se argumenta que durante el año en estudio se cuestionó, en diversos espacios de la sociedad chilena, la forma en que se distribuye el poder entre hombres y mujeres. Se revisa también la tercera ola de protestas feminista, caracterizada por el accionar de mujeres universitarias a lo largo de todo el país, cuyas manifest…
A Constituency Theory for the Conditional Impact of Female Presidents
A Theory of Gender’s Role on Presidential Approval Ratings in Corrupt Times
The rise of female chief executives appears to signal gender progress, but this may not be unequivocally so. This article advances a contextual theory for the role of gender on leaders’ approval ratings, a key measure of “success” and source of executive power. I argue that because of gendered expectations and discourse, female presidents will receive lower approval ratings in contexts of corruption. The study focuses on Latin America, known for …
Gendered Incentives, Party Support, and Viable Female Presidential Candidates in Latin America
Women hold less than 10 percent of chief executive positions worldwide. Understanding how women democratically access these posts requires theorizing how they gain resources from established parties to mount viable electoral campaigns. We argue that in stable regimes marked by representational malaise parties respond to gendered incentives and nominate female candidates. Drawing on Latin American cases, we show how diverse parties nominated women…
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in…
The Puzzle of Chile’s Resilient Support for Gender Parity
Chile’s 2021–22 Constitutional Convention was the first in the world to feature mechanisms that guaranteed gender parity among constituents (Arce and Suárez-Cao 2021). This was not an easy win. Feminist activists and women politicians pushed for gender parity in 2020-21 in a country that had adopted gender quotas relatively late (Figueroa 2021; Reyes-Housholder, Suárez-Cao, and Le Foulon 2023; Suárez-Cao 2023; personal interview #1, April 21, 202…
Gender and Presidential Vote Choice in Latin America
Why do women and men vote differently in presidential elections? Much research on gender and vote choice has focused on the United States and Western Europe, with less attention to the Global South. We develop a theory of sex gaps in presidential voting, which shows how ideology, feminism, and gendered personalities may help explain them. To test this, we designed and fielded surveys for presidential elections in Chile in 2021, Brazil in 2022, an…
Antifeminism and backlash politics
What drives antifeminist attitudes, and how do they shape political behavior? This article argues that in contexts of major feminist advances, antifeminist attitudes can emerge and broadly influence political behavior. With both a strong feminist mobilization and the rise of far-right forces, Chile represents a most-likely case for testing theories of cultural backlash. We develop a novel measure of antifeminism at the mass level and analyze face…
Gender Politics and Representation (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)