Do Voters Judge the Performance of Female and Male Politicians Differently? Experimental Evidence from the United States and Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roosmarijn De Geus (0000-0003-3053-2123, University of Oxford, corresponding author), John R Mcandrews (0000-0002-3085-9479, University of Toronto, ON, Canada), Peter John Loewen (0000-0003-2690-4158, University of Toronto, ON, Canada), Aaron Martins (0009-0000-4073-9182), Aaron Martin (0000-0002-1896-4970, The University of Melbourne), Aaron E Martin (0000-0001-5502-2571, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 302-316 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912920906193 |
| OpenAlex | W3008660424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 86 |
Do gender stereotypes about agency affect how voters judge the governing performance of political executives? We explore this question using two conjoint experiments: one conducted in the United States and the other in Australia. Contrary to our expectations, we find no evidence in either experiment to suggest that female political executives (i.e., governors, premiers, and mayors) receive lower levels of credit than their male counterparts for positive governing performance. We do find evidence that female executives receive less blame than male executives for poor governing performance—but only in the U.S. case. Taken together, our findings suggest that the stereotype of male agency has only a limited effect on voters’ retrospective judgments. Moreover, the results indicate that—when performance information is presented in unframed, factual terms—agentic stereotyping by voters does not, in itself, present a serious obstacle to the re-election of women in powerful executive positions
Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Blame · Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |