Gender Stereotypes, Candidate Evaluations, and Voting for Women Candidates: What Really Matters?

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 96-107

  Dolan, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender stereotypes; women candidates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893536655     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912913487949     Document Type: Article

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