A High Bar or a Double Standard? Gender, Competence, and Information in Political Campaigns

• Published in: Political behavior Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 301 - 325
• Main Author: Ditonto, Tessa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Science + Business Media 01.06.2017; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Experiments; Gender; Gender differences; Information; Men; ORIGINAL PAPER; Political campaigns; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Studies; Sociology; Stereotypes; Voter behavior; Voting; Impression formation; Voting behavior; Gender; Stereotypes; Information processing; Candidate evaluation

This study seeks to determine whether subjects in two dynamic process tracing experiments react differently to information related to a candidate’s competence when that candidate is a woman, vs. when he is a man. I find that subjects evaluate a candidate whose competence is in doubt less favorably,...