Publications and Projects
 

   ●   "Activating, Mobilizing Race and Gender" (with Nancy Burns and Donald Kinder) We compare the activation for public opinion and the mobilization for political action of gender and race during the 2006 campaigns, drawing on the natural experiments offered up by differing political contexts. (Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007.)

   ●   "The Crisis of Birth: Do Babies Pull Women Out of the Public Sphere While Pushing Men Back In?" (with Jake Bowers) Our project examines the effects of child bearing and rearing on the political participation of individuals in the United States.  We use longitudinal data from the NES and the Political Socialization Study in an attempt to understand how having children changes the levels and types of political involvement for mothers and fathers. (Invited presentation at the Workshop for Democratic Politics, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, October 25, 2006.)

    ●   "The Effect of Electoral Context on When Parties Recruit Women" with Katherine W. Drake) We explore parties' incentives for nominating women candidates and building a theory to explain when and why parties will "want to" recruit female candidates. Using time-series, district-level data, we explore how district ideology, measured by district partisanship, influences the party's incentives to nominate female candidates. (Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007 and the the Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics, Ann Arbor, MI, April 20, 2007.)

    ●   "The Influence of Group Membership on Participation: A Study of Voters' Reactions to Female Candidates in the 1998 U.S. House Elections." I analyze district and individual level data for the 1998 House elections using matching to estimate how the presence of a female candidate influences the voter turnout of men and women. (Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.)

   ●   "Gender Styles and Voter Evaluation: The Strength of Stereotypes or the Weakness of Political Science Models?" In this draft research design I propose to investigate how individuals employ or disregard gender stereotypes to assess a set of candidates who exhibit a wide range of intra-gender variation.

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