Differences in voting patterns across the urban-rural divide are well established in the environmental voting literature. Several scholars suggest that this regularity is due to ideological differences across urban and rural areas, while others posit economic arguments centering on industrial...

Research has demonstrated that, at Congressional and State levels, the gender of a representative has a concrete and significant effect on the policy priorities of the representative. However, at the local level, there is little evidence of a gender effect. Using survey data from municipal...

Scholars have documented the ways in which gender stereotypes harm the electoral prospects of female candidates. We know less about the factors that might mitigate the expression of these stereotypes. This question took on new and timely significance during the 2008 presidential election. As a...