This article develops and tests a new theoretical framework, gendered political socialization,
which offers important insights into how children perceive gender in politics and the …

Concern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies.
Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research fails to ask whether who …

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” …

When individuals are confronted with information about why and where gender quotas
should apply, does it affect their attitudes? A growing literature argues that information …

While widespread agreement that policing in the United States needs to be reformed arose
in the summer of 2020, little consensus about specific reforms was reached. A common …

Political ambition is an advantage in men, but women striving for political power go against
gendered social role prescriptions that place women in a subsidiary position of power …

While recent research has produced robust objective evidence of unequal representation in
democracies, there is little evidence about whether this inequality is consistent with …

The twenty‐first century has been one of democratic backsliding. This has stimulated wide‐
ranging scholarship on the causes of democratic erosion. Yet an overarching framework that …

In this research letter, we examine whether gender and racial bias affect interruption rates at
one of the most visible events in American politics: US Supreme Court confirmation …

We argue that characteristics of unelected officials directly influence individuals' perceptions
and evaluations of them. These evaluations then have indirect, downstream consequences …