The Path to Women’s Candidate Emergence is Paved with Metaphorical Resistance: The Limits of Identity-Based Motivation

• In Event: Women as Candidates: The Role of Candidate Training Organizations

Brief Overview

we randomly assign participants to receive a journey-metaphoric portrayal or an equivalent literal portrayal of their political activities and measure their subsequent motivation to pursue a possible identity in the realm of elective office.

Authors

• Jennie Sweet-Cushman, Chatham University

• Monica C Schneider, Miami University-Oxford

• Mark J Landau, University of Kansas