Women Governors and Natural Disasters: Do natural disasters generate rallies for women governors?

• In Event: Gendered Political Leadership and Responsiveness in Crisis

Brief Overview

This paper examines whether, and the extent to which gender affects the "rally effect" during times of crisis for executive leadership. We address this specifically by looking at U.S. governors from 1974-2020.

Authors

• Alexander Carl Pacek, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Riley Pritzlaff, Texas A&M University - College Station