Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates

Political Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 253-273

  Krupnikov, Yanna ^a   Piston, Spencer ^b   Bauer, Nichole M ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black candidates; Experiments; Female candidates; Gender; Race; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961191990     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12261     Document Type: Article

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