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Voting for Women

Dilemmas in American Politics

Series Editor: L. Sandy Maisel, Colby College

If the answers to the problems facing U.S. democracy were easy, politicians would solve them, accept credit, and move on. But certain dilemmas have confronted the American political system continuously. They defy solution; they are endemic to the system. Some can best be described as institutional dilemmas: How can the Congress be both a representative body and a national decision-maker? How can the president communicate with more than 250 million citizens effectively? Why do we have a two-party system when many voters are disappointed with the choices presented to them? Others are policy dilemmas: How do we find compromises on issues that defy compromise, such as abortion policy? How do we incorporate racial and ethnic minorities or immigrant groups into American society, allowing them to reap the benefits of this land without losing their identity? How do we fund health care for our poorest or oldest citizens?

Dilemmas such as these are what propel students toward an interest in the study of U.S. government. Each book in the Dilemmas in American Politics Series addresses a "real world" problem, raising the issues that are of most concern to students. Each is structured to cover the historical and theoretical aspects of the dilemma but also to explore the dilemma from a practical point of view and to speculate about the future. The books are designed as supplements to introductory courses in American politics or as case studies to be used in upper-level courses. The link among them is the desire to make the real issues confronting the political world come alive in students' eyes.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Jeffrey M. Berry
Tufts University

John F. Bibby
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David T. Canon
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rodolfo O. de la Garza
University of Texas, Austin

Diana Evans
Trinity College

Linda L. Fowler
Dartmouth College

Paul Gronke
Reed College

Richard Herrera
Arizona State University

Ruth S. Jones
Arizona State University

Robin Kolodny
Temple University

Jay McCann
Purdue University

Paula D. McClain
Duke University

Karen O'Connor
American University

Samuel C. Patterson
Ohio State University

Ronald B. Rapoport
The College of William and Mary

Craig A. Rimmerman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Wendy Schiller
Brown University

David Shribman
Pittsburgh PastGazette

Walter J. Stone
University of California, Davis

Books in This Series

Two PartiesOr More? The American Party System , Second Edition , John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel

"Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, Third Edition, Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr.

The Role of the Supreme Court in American Politics: The Least Dangerous Branch?, Richard L. Pacelle Jr.

The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service, Second Edition, Craig A. Rimmerman

Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics, Second Edition , Clyde Wilcox

To Serve God and Mammon: Church-State Relations in American Politics, Ted Jelen

Money Rules: Financing Elections in America , Anthony Gierzynski

The Dysfunctional Congress ? The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma, Kenneth R. Mayer and David T. Canon

The Accidental System: Health Care Policy in America, Michael D. Reagan

The Image-Is-Everything Presidency: Dilemma in American Leadership, Richard W. Waterman, Robert Wright, and Gilbert St Clair

The Angry American: How Voter Rage Is Changing the Nation, Second Edition , Susan J. Tolchin

Remote and Controlled: Media Politics in a Cynical Age, Second Edition, Matthew Robert Kerbel

Checks and Balances? How a Parliamentary System Could Change American Politics, Paul Christopher Manuel and Anne Marie Cammisa

Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy, Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo de la Garza

From Rhetoric to Reform? Welfare Policy in American Politics, Anne Marie Cammisa

No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes, Karen O'Connor

Payment Due: A Nation in Debt, A Generation in Trouble , Timothy J. Penny and Steven E. Schier

Bucking the Deficit: Economic Policymaking in the United States, G. Calvin Mackenzie and Saranna Thornton

Voting for Women

How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates

Kathleen A. Dolan
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dilemmas in American Politics

First published 2004 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dolan, Kathleen A.
Voting for women: how the public evaluates women candidates /
Kathleen A. Dolan.
p. cm. (Dilemmas in American politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-4105-1 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8133-9841-X (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Women political candidatesUnited States. I. Title. II. Series.
HQ1236.5.U6D64 2003
320'.082'0973dc21

2003009391

Typeface used in this text: 11 -point Minion

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-9841-9 (pbk)

This book is dedicated to
My familyTom, Olivia, and Clayton
And to the guys at Providence College
Jim, Bill, Mark, and Bob

Contents

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

1. Tables
2. Figures

DURING THE SECOND SEMESTER of my first year in college, in Mark Hyde's Introduction to Political Analysis class, I received an assignment to evaluate a journal article on a topic that interested me. I chose "The Impact of Candidate Sex on Voter Choice" by Laurie Ekstrand and William Eckert ( Western Political Quarterly 34 [1981]). That assignment began my work on a body of research on attitudes toward women candidates that includes my dissertation, several journal articles, and now this book. My thinking about women candidates has, I hope, evolved over the years. Regardless, I know that the debts, both intellectual and personal, that I owe to those who have helped me along this path are significant.

I am indebted to Barbara Burrell, Peggy Conway, Lynne Ford, and Karen O'Connor for a multitude of things. Each of them read and commented on the prospectus for this book, offering encouragement that it was an idea worth pursuing. But I owe each of them a greater debt for things large and small over the years. Peggy has served above and beyond the call over the years, continuing to read my work and to offer support and encouragement long after her official role as my dissertation chair ended. Barbara and Karen have been mentors and friends, offering advice and opportunities for professional growth over the years. Lynne has been my best friend for close to 20 years now, providing friendship, support, and the benefits of her recent experiences as a first-time book author. To each of them I say thank you.

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