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100			_aRefki, Dina and Faerman, Sue _949247
245			_a The making of female politicians: Why political identity matters
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a45(4), Sep, 2024: p.506-520
520			_aWhat makes female candidates for political office persist in their quest? Using self-determination and casual agency theories, we hypothesize that female candidates for public office need to construct and maintain a political identity in their quest for office. Through interviews, we explore the narratives of 35 women who ran for public office at the state and local levels in the United States. Half of the women persisted to the end of the race, whereas the other half aborted their campaign at some point before elections. We show that those who persisted performed conscious and deliberate political identity work which neutralized threats from the external environment, leveraged opportunities, and strengthened political identities. Internalizing, identifying with, and expressing oneself as a political actor is critical to resilience as a candidate for political office. Understanding threats to fragmentation of political identity is a critical implication for women running for office.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121231170575
650			_aGender, female political candidates, Identity, US politics. _949248
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
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