Rhetoric, Gender and Partisanship: How Strength of Multiple Social Identities Affects Candidate Evaluations

• In Event: Gender, Language & Stereotypes

Brief Overview

How do voters respond to ingroup criticism when it comes from co-partisan candidates? We assess how the strength of voters’ partisanship and gender identity condition the way they react to social group criticisms.

Authors

• Rebeca Agosto Rosa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Betsy Rajala, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Charla Waeiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign