Book chapter
Party Identity and Issue Preferences in the 1998 Election
How Women Represent Women
Oxford University Press
03/15/2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0004
Abstract
Chapter 4 offers the first of three empirical tests of party effects, particularly party identity. It examines state legislators’ policy preferences in 42 states in the 1998 election period (before the 1999-2000 legislative session) to determine the extent to which party identity underlies women state legislative candidates’ policy preferences on women’s issues. From these issue positions in the election, it is clear that Democratic and Republican women hold partisan positions on most issues in the election, including women’s issues. Even though significant gender differences exist for women of both parties on several issue items, partisan women hold positions more similar to the men in their own party than the women in the other party, even on issues directly related to women. Empirically, this chapter demonstrates that women legislators’ party identity significantly divides their issue preferences in the
election, before they enter the institutional partisanship of the legislative environment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Party Identity and Issue Preferences in the 1998 Election
- Creators
- Tracy L Osborn
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How Women Represent Women
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/15/2012
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983988993602771
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