I'm Every Woman? How Identities Influence Conceptions of Women's Issues

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  • March 19, 2019
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  • Sentementes, Amy
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
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  • In this paper, I argue that political elites intend the popular women’s issue label to serve as an issue frame. I evaluate how individuals, especially women, respond to this frame. I offer an original theoretical framework about how identities, specifically partisan and gender identities, influence conceptions of women’s issues, as the potentially distinct definitions of women’s issues between Democratic and Republican individuals may serve as the cause for their disparate responses to the women’s issue frame. To test my theory, I use a nationally representative public opinion survey that contains questions about individuals’ identities and their understanding of women’s issues. In this analysis, I find that Republicans and Democrats identify distinct sets of issues as women’s issues. I also find that women and Democrats possess a more developed understanding of women’s issues than men and Republicans, respectively. These findings suggest that identities limit the success of the women’s issue frame.
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  • Conover, Pamela
  • Baumgartner, Frank
  • Bickford, Susan
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  • Master of Arts
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2015
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  • Chapel Hill, NC
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  • August 25, 2015

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