When gender and party collide: Stereotyping in candidate trait attribution

Politics and Gender

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-165

  Hayes, Danny ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 82455250923     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X11000055     Document Type: Article

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