Wealth, power, and status are distributed unevenly across social groups. A surge of recent
research reveals that people being recognizing, representing, and reasoning about group …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

Given that a national superintendent dataset has never existed, claims about superintendent
turnover and gender gaps have traditionally been based on conjecture or data from a single …

Prior work suggests that modern gender bias might have historical roots but has not been
able to demonstrate long-term persistence of this bias due to a lack of historical data. We …

This article proposes a simple but powerful framework to measure political sophistication
based on open-ended survey responses. Discursive sophistication uses automated text …

Research in political psychology largely ignores early childhood. This is likely due to the
assumption that young children lack the cognitive capacity and social understanding …

Depression can affect individuals' attitudes by enhancing cognitive biases and altering
perceptions of control. We investigate the relationship between depressive symptoms and …

One of the main supply‐side explanations for women's underrepresentation in politics is the
gender gap in nascent political ambition. While this has been examined in terms of electoral …

This article offers an innovative way of understanding gender balance in parliaments.
Motivated by research documenting how newcomers are disadvantaged during their first …

Previous work suggests that observing women officeholders increases women's political
ambition. Yet, jumps in women's representation in the United States'“Years of the Woman” …