Which Women Can Run? Gender, Partisanship, and Candidate Donor Networks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle M Thomsen (0000-0003-0446-6425, Syracuse University, NY, USA, corresponding author), Michele L Swers (0000-0001-6457-9662, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 449-463 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/1065912917698044 |
| OpenAlex | W2593161335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 89 |
| References cited | 35 |
Recent scholarship rejects campaign finance as a cause of women’s underrepresentation in Congress because women raise as much money as men running in similar races. We argue that campaign finance still impacts which women can make a run for office because candidates have to build their own donor networks. Using a unique dataset that includes primary and general election candidates for the U.S. House in 2010 and 2012, we examine the gender composition of candidates’ donor networks. We find that candidates’ ideological views are very important to contributors. Donors, particularly Democrats, also exhibit a gender affinity effect in which men give more to male candidates and women favor female candidates. Furthermore, female Democratic donors seem to value the election of women, especially liberal Democratic women, over other traditional predictors of giving, such as incumbency and competitiveness. Meanwhile, Republican male and female donors do not focus on candidate gender, and female Republican donors prefer conservative candidates. Thus, the existing partisan donor pools are friendlier to the emergence of liberal female Democrats than Republican women
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| Citations per year | 9,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |