Where do Female Conservatives Stand?: A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates

Roosmarijn de Geus; Rosalind Shorrocks

Where do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates

Roosmarijn de Geus, Rosalind Shorrocks

Politics

The University of Reading

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Abstract

Many right-wing parties have attempted to increase their share of female representatives to appeal to women in the electorate. Underlying this is the assumption that women will offer a distinct perspective to the party. Using a comparative dataset of male and female candidates of Conservative and Christian Democratic parties across 21 European and Anglo-Saxon countries, we show this is the case. Female candidates in right-wing parties are less right wing than male candidates, both in terms of their overall ideology and their issue positioning. Perhaps as a consequence, female candidates perceive a greater distance to their own party than male candidates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sell-Outs or Warriers for Change?
Subtitle of host publication	A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies
Editors	Malliga Och, Shauna Shames, Rosalyn Cooperman
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	1
Pages	7-35
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003323228
ISBN (Print)	9781032346571
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2022

Keywords

Gender
conservative politics
female candidates
political parties
ideology
issue positions

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de Geus, Roosmarijn ; Shorrocks, Rosalind. / Where do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates. Sell-Outs or Warriers for Change?: A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies. editor / Malliga Och ; Shauna Shames ; Rosalyn Cooperman. Abingdon : Routledge, 2022. pp. 7-35

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Where do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates. / de Geus, Roosmarijn; Shorrocks, Rosalind.
Sell-Outs or Warriers for Change?: A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies. ed. / Malliga Och; Shauna Shames; Rosalyn Cooperman. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. p. 7-35.

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Where do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates

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