Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote

King, Amy; Leigh, Andrew

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Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote

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2010

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King, Amy

Leigh, Andrew

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University of Texas Press

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Objective: This study examines whether women's electoral fortunes in Australia have improved in line with changing social norms over the past century. We use new strategies to explore whether female candidates face discrimination by the voting public, or

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Social Science Quarterly

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10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00695.x

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