Women on the Run - Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era

Informationen zum Autor Danny Hayes is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, Washington DC. A former journalist, his research focuses on how information from the media and other political actors influences citizens' attitudes and behavior. He is the co-author of Influence from Abroad: Foreign Voices, the Media, and US Public Opinion (Cambridge, 2013). Jennifer L. Lawless is Professor of Government at American University, Washington DC, where she is also the Director of the Women and Politics Institute. She is the author of Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office (Cambridge, 2012) and the co-author of Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics (2015) and It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge, 2010). Klappentext The book argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, the candidate's sex plays a minimal role in the majority of US elections. Zusammenfassung The book revisits - and corrects - the conventional wisdom about what happens when women run for office in the USA! finding that female candidates face little bias from the media or voters. It is aimed at upper-level undergraduates! graduate students and researchers in political science! gender studies! electoral politics and mass media. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gender, myth, and reality on the campaign trail; 2. Rethinking and reassessing gender differences on the campaign trail; 3. That's what she said, and so did he; 4. Sex is no story; 5. The party, not the person; 6. The origins and implications of perceptions of gender bias.

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• Authors: Danny Hayes, Danny (George Washington University Hayes, Danny Lawless Hayes, Hayes Danny, Jennifer L. Lawless, Jennifer L. (American University Lawless, Lawless Jennifer L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107535862
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53586-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Political campaigning & advertising, Gender studies: women, Political campaigning and advertising, Gender studies: women and girls, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state