Gender and Elections

Susan J. Carroll is Professor Emerita at Rutgers University and a former senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers. She is a co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters (2018, with Kelly Dittmar and Kira Sanbonmatsu) and More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to State Legislatures (2013, with Kira Sanbonmatsu). Earlier books include: Women as Candidates in American Politics (Second Edition, 1994); Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (2003); and The Impact of Women in Public Office (2001). Carroll also has published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on women candidates, voters, elected officials, and political appointees in the United States. Richard L. Fox is Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. His research examines how gender affects voting behavior, state executive elections, congressional elections, and political ambition. Most recently he is a co-author of Women, Men & U.S. Politics: Ten Big Questions (2017). Other books include Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics (2015), and It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Political Psychology, PS, Women & Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Public Administration Review. Kelly Dittmar is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers–Camden. She is also a scholar and the Director of Research at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on gender and American political institutions. She is the co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters (2018, with Kira Sanbonmatsu and Susan J. Carroll) and author of Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (2015). At CAWP, Dittmar manages national research projects, helps to develop and implement CAWP's research agenda, and contributes to CAWP reports, publications, and analyses.

Introduction: Gender and electoral politics in the twenty-first century Susan J. Carroll, Richard L. Fox, and Kelly Dittmar; 1. Gender, race, and presidential politics: assessing institutional change in 2020 Melanye Price and Kelly Dittmar; 2. Women as presidential and vice-presidential contenders: history made and history deferred Kelly Dittmar; 3. Gendered mobilization and elections: the intersectional politics of protest Celeste Montoya; 4. Voter participation and turnout: more diverse electorate, new forms of activism, record turnout Susan A. MacManus and Amy N. Benner; 5. Voting choices: the importance of women voters and the gender gap Susan J. Carroll; 6. Presente!: Latinas mobilizing for political change across candidates, races, and voters in 2020 Anna Sampaio; 7. Elevating African American women's political leadership amid pandemic politics Wendy G. Smooth; 8. Congressional elections: women's candidacies and the road to gender parity Richard L. Fox; 9. Women's election to office in the fifty states: changes and challenges Kira Sanbonmatsu and Maria Wilson; 10. Supporting women candidates: the role of parties, women's organizations, and PACs Rosalyn Cooperman; 11. Gender and candidate communication: TV ads, websites, and social media Dianne Bystrom; Index.