Women Voters
Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections

This Element provides a new way to understand women voters.

Jane Junn (Author), Natalie Masuoka (Author)

9781009326872, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2024

102 pages
23 x 15 x 0.5 cm, 0.17 kg

Women Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican and women of color are majority Democratic voters. Second, due to the unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, white women have greater agency to sort by partisan preference, whereas women of color have more limited choice in their partisan support. Finally, the authors emphasize compositional change in the electorate as an important explanation of electoral outcomes.

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
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Subject Areas: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]