Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferences. Steel extends existing theories to create a broader framework for thinking about gender and voting behaviour to provide more analytical purchase in understanding gender and voters’ preferences.
Trade Review“This book is choc-full of great data and represents a timely contribution to political science. Steel’s voice is hip, and especially well-suited for the newcomer to politics seeking a solid introduction to the intersection of gender and electoral politics across three distinct democracies. Experts alike will benefit from Steel’s comparative analysis.”- Dyron Dabney, Earlham College
“This well-researched, well-written book draws on an impressive variety of evidence to make an important contribution to our understanding of the ‘gender gap’ in voting. This book has much to teach readers about the relationship between gender and forces like class, symbolic politics, the media, and political campaigns.”- Michael Strausz, Texas Christian University
Table of Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Does Gender Matter in Voting?
- Identifying Voter Patterns: Do Women and Men Vote Differently?
- Women, Men and Party Choice
- What Women (and Men) Want: Policy Preferences, Values, and Issue Voting
- Desperately Seeking the Supervoter: Why Do People Vote the Way They Do?
- What Women Get: ‘Wooing Women’
Conclusion
- Appendices
- A. Coding and Survey Question Wording
- B. Analyses of U.S. Women’s and Men’s Voting Preferences: Regression Results
- C. Analyses of British Women’s and Men’s Voting Preferences: Regression Results
- D. Analyses of Japanese Women’s and Men’s Voting Preferences: Regression Results
- Index
