Women Voters - Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections

This Element, Women Voters, documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. Women are diverse and politically heterogeneous, and unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, and compositional change in the electorate an important explanation of electoral outcomes.

List of contents

1. Women voters; 2. Analyzing both/and: Race, gender, and party in candidate choice; 3. Stalwarts of the modern democratic party: Women of color voters; 4. The diverse politics of white women voters; 5. The gender gap is a race gap; 6. Race, gender, and dynamism in American elections; References.

Summary

This Element, Women Voters, documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. Women are diverse and politically heterogeneous, and unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, and compositional change in the electorate an important explanation of electoral outcomes.

Foreword

This Element provides a new way to understand women voters.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Junn, Jane Masuoka Junn, Junn Jane, Natalie Masuoka, Masuoka Natalie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009494625
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949462-5
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Social discrimination & inequality, Political science and theory, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Social discrimination and social justice, American government; politics; policy