Panoeconomicus

Hooghe M., Stolle D.

Participation research routinely reveals a gender gap with regard to most forms of political engagement. In the recent literature, differences in the availability of resources and civic skills are usually invoked as an explanation for this pattern. This theory focuses primarily on adult behavior and has not as yet been investigated among young people, for whom we can assume that resources are distributed more equally. In this article, we examine gender differences in the anticipation of political participation among American fourteen-year-olds, building on the 1999 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement study (n = 2,811). First, the results show that girls at this age mention even more actions they intend to engage in than do boys, so clearly the gender gap with regard to the level of participation has not yet emerged at that age. Second, we observe distinct patterns with regard to the kinds of actions favored, with girls being drawn more towards social movement-r...

Martin E.

Panagopoulos C.

Bevacqua M., Baker C.

O'brien E.

Jalalzai F.

Simien E.M.

Black feminist consciousness arises from an understanding of intersecting patterns of discrimination. If race and gender are studied as separate categories, one cannot explain how attitudes might c...

Elder L.

Women are dramatically underrepresented in all of America's elective political institutions. Previous research has demonstrated that once women choose to become candidates they not only receive equal levels of party and financial support, but are just as likely as equally situated men to win. The primary reason for women's underrepresentation is that women are significantly less likely to choose to run than men. Using survey data from four different age cohorts in a central New York county, this paper provides some additional insight into why women are so much less likely to become candidates for political office than men. The findings suggest that a multiplicity of factors including political gender role socialization, a lack of political confidence, family responsibilities and the relatively few numbers of visible women role models in politics all contribute to why women don't run.

Rosenbluth F., Light M., Schrag C.

Kenski K., Falk E.

Stevenson L.S.

Knight K., Galligan Y., Choille U.N.