Candidate Gender and Voter Choice: Analysis from a Multimember Preferential Voting System
Candidate Gender and Voter Choice: Analysis from a Multimember Preferential Voting System
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候选人性别与选民选择：多人优先投票系统的分析
DOI：
10.1177/1065912909336270
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Michael Marsh
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作者：
Gail Mcelroy;Michael Marsh
妇女在当选的办公室中的人数大大不足。关于该主题的大量文献已经大大提高了我们对这一现象的理解，但是许多问题仍然没有得到解答。作者使用原始的汇总和个人级别数据，探讨了候选人性别，党派，任职和竞选性支出的相互作用。这种设置允许对选民决策的异质性质无与伦比的探索。作者几乎没有证据表明候选人性别对选民选择的独立影响。即使在选举环境中，选民也不会歧视妇女，这为她们提供了这一机会，而无需支付其党派偏好。
Women are greatly underrepresented in elected office. A large literature on the subject has considerably advanced our understanding of this phenomenon, but many questions remain unanswered. Using original aggregate and individual-level data, the authors explore the interplay of candidate gender, partisanship, incumbency, and campaign spending in a multimember preferential voting system. This setting allows unparalleled exploration of the heterogeneous nature of voter decision making. The authors find little evidence for an independent effect of candidate gender on voter choice. Voters do not discriminate against women even in an electoral environment that affords them this opportunity without any cost to their partisan preferences.