01502nam a22001577a 4500 514636 514636 201125b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Bauer, Nichole M. 21368 Running local: Gender stereotyping and female candidates in local elections Urban Affairs Review 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.96-123 An implicit assumption underlying the gender stereotyping literature is that female candidates have an advantage in local elections. Two factors motivate this assumption. First, some local issues, such as the provision of social services, fit into the stereotypic strengths of female politicians. Second, as the level of office increases, so too does the perceived masculinity of the office. Research on local policymaking, however, indicates that the tasks associated with local political offices, such as economic competition with other cites, require masculine rather than feminine qualities. I integrate research on local policymaking with the gender stereotyping literature to clarify the role of gender stereotypes in local elections. Using two national survey experiments, I find that female candidates, especially Republican female candidates, benefit from emphasizing masculine stereotypes and not feminine stereotypes. – Reproduced Gender stereotypes, Female candidates, Partisan stereotypes, Voter decision making, Local politics 19451 Urban Affairs Review WOMEN - UNITED STATES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 388639 IIPA IIPA 2020-11-25 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.96-123 AR124098 2020-11-25 AR