Add to ORKGOne of the most striking images of the first televised UK general election leadership debate on Thursday 2nd April 2015 was the comparison of the seven party leaders on the platform including three women: Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Natalie Bennett (Green), and Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru). The flash opinion polls immediately after the debate asking the public who won were divided, with YouGov putting Nicola Sturgeon first, while the Guardian/ICM Unlimited survey reported that Miliband and Cameron were neck-and-neck. In this post, Pippa Norris asks: did the sex of the leaders have any impact on how women and men evaluated the leaders’ performance
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Book synopsis: The 2005 British general election witnessed unprecedented media interest in the parti...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Allen, Peter, David Cutts, and Rosie Cam...
Despite a few more women making an appearance in the TV referendum debates, the campaign continues t...
The glacial pace of change in improving women’s representation in Parliament and British government ...
Leaders’ debates have become a feature of contemporary election campaigning. While an historical fea...
In an election characterised by a focus on Brexit, gender-neutral campaigns, and a dominant Conserva...
Women continue to be under-represented in political positions of power, as well as in the upper eche...
Recent major surveys of the Scottish electorate and of Scottish National Party (SNP) members have re...
Abstract: Research on the effect of candidate sex on voting behaviour has found mixed results. In so...
What happens when voters elect more female MPs? Zac Greene and Diana O’Brien reveal that the presenc...
A growing body of work on candidate traits shows that people with a given social characteristic tend...
As men continue to dominate in executive office, male leadership remains the norm and has structured...
Spoken language and gender differences tend to create different language usages in how men and women...
Support for the populist radical right (PRR) has surged across Europe. Existing studies on female su...
Northern Ireland continues to lag behind the rest of the UK when it comes to female representation i...
Book synopsis: The 2005 British general election witnessed unprecedented media interest in the parti...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Allen, Peter, David Cutts, and Rosie Cam...
Despite a few more women making an appearance in the TV referendum debates, the campaign continues t...