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Gender dynamics in congressional elections [electronic resource] / Richard Logan Fox.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary American politicsPublication details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, c1997.Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781452248998 (electronic bk.)
  • 1452248990 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.082
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.U6 F7 1997
Online resources: Summary: What happens in an electoral environment involving female candidates? Do women face different challenges during the electoral process? Do male candidates pay more attention to women's issues, or make other strategic and behavioural changes, when opposed by a female candidate? Richard Logan Fox asks these and other questions with compelling evidence which suggests that women candidates are having a profound impact on the electoral process. The author studies the congressional races of 1992 and 1994 in California, in which a record nineteen women were candidates for House seats. He contra
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What happens in an electoral environment involving female candidates? Do women face different challenges during the electoral process? Do male candidates pay more attention to women's issues, or make other strategic and behavioural changes, when opposed by a female candidate? Richard Logan Fox asks these and other questions with compelling evidence which suggests that women candidates are having a profound impact on the electoral process. The author studies the congressional races of 1992 and 1994 in California, in which a record nineteen women were candidates for House seats. He contra

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