Do Woman MPs Influence Parties’ Policy Images? A Cross-National Analysis of 20 Western Party Systems

• In Event: Gender and Representation

Brief Overview

We analyze whether the gender balance of parties’ parliamentary delegations influences voters’ perceptions of parties’ Left-Right positions, independently of the parties’ objective positions.

Authors

• James Adams, University of California-Davis

• Noam Gidron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Will Horne, Princeton University