Recipe for Disaster or Electoral Success? Female Candidate Ideological Extremism in U.S. Congressional Elections

• In Event: Cross Pressures and Fault Lines

Brief Overview

Our study examines U.S. House elections from 2002 through 2018 to analyze how the ideology of female congressional candidates and the congruence between their ideology and the ideology of their district affects their electoral success.

Authors

• Jordan Kujala, University of California Center Sacramento

• Danielle Joesten Martin, California State University-Sacramento