Abstract The feminist movement in the United States like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. From the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the U.S. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. One of the important issues in which women played a key role in party ...

abstract the feminist movement in the united states like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. from the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the u.s. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. one of the important issues in which women played a key role in party p...

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The Creation of an Endangered Species: Party Nonconformists of the U.S. Senate* Richard Fleisher Fordham University Jon R. Bond Texas A&M University Party nonconformists--that is, moderate to conservative Democrats and moderate to liberal Republicans who had policy preferences different from the mainstream of their party--have largely disappeared from the Senate. As nonconformists disappeared f...

This article investigates how a key stratum of the partisan elite—party activists—have been positioned across time and policy issues. We examine extent to which activists have polarized symmetrically or asymmetrically find that only on issue abortion has one party’s (Republicans) notably more than other’s. The also analyzes party activist proximity mass public’s preferences finds Democrats are ...

Over the past 75 years, common stocks performed better under Democrats, while U.S. government bonds and Treasury (T) bills performed better under Republicans. Using a mean-variance framework, we find that Democrats provide better risk-reward opportunities for portfolios weighted toward stocks, while Republicans provide better tradeoffs for portfolios weighted toward government bonds and T-bills...

Previous research finds that Republicans report being happier or more satisfied with their lives than Democrats. Using representative American samples from 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2010, we tested a Person × Situation interactionist account in which political affiliation (Democrat, Republican) and political climate (favorable when the president in office is of the same party) are proposed to...

• Homophily differs for republicans and democrats in the US House. men women is stronger among than democrats, men, or women. Effective lawmaking requires collaboration legislators, who form coalitions to advance their legislative agendas. In this paper, we explore how legislators’ party gender identities simultaneously influence whom they choose as collaborators by examining differential homop...

► We examine the influence of appearance-based cues on judgments of party affiliation. ► We find that facial cues associated with political party affiliation are sex-typed. ► Female Republicans are significantly more sex-typical than female Democrats. ► Accuracy of party judgments varies by sex-typicality and politician party. ► Facial sex-typicality mediates the influence of politician sex and...

Abstract We develop a broadly applicable class of coevolving latent space network with attractors (CLSNA) models, where nodes represent individual social actors assumed to lie in an unknown space, edges the presence specified interaction between actors, and are added level capture notion attractive repulsive forces. apply CLSNA models understand dynamics partisan polarization US politics on med...