The Role of a Gendered Policy Agenda in Closing the Mayoral Ambition Gap: The Case of Texas Female City Council Members

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dc.contributor.authorBudd, Darlene M.
dc.contributor.authorMyers, Angelique
dc.contributor.authorLongoria, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-02T18:56:31Z
dc.date.available2020-11-02T18:56:31Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.description.abstractThis study explores female city council member political ambition to run for mayor. Women who hold mayoral office are potentially more competitive for higher elected office at the state and federal level. This study is based on a survey sent to Texas city council members in cities over 30,000. Forty-one percent of respondents said they would most likely run for mayor at some point, and we do find a gender gap in ambition (50% of men and 36% of women). However, we find that women who advocated a gendered local government political agenda exhibited higher levels of political ambition compared women who do not, and the ambition gap is reduced significantly. This finding holds up, controlling for other factors suggested by the literature that are predictors of political ambition. Two of these other factors—age and personal support—also increase city council member mayoral ambition. The findings are discussed in terms of strategies to increase female mayoral ambition.
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dc.identifier.citationBudd, D., Myers, A., & Longoria, T. (2015). The role of a gendered policy agenda in closing the mayoral ambition gap: The case of Texas female city council members. <i>Journal of Research on Women and Gender, 6</i>(1), pp. 81-93.
dc.identifier.issn2375-0944
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/12887
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTexas State University, Center for Diversity and Gender Studies
dc.sourceJournal of Research on Women and Gender, 2015, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 81-93.
dc.subjectpolitical science
dc.subjectwomen's studies
dc.subjectsociology
dc.subjectpolitical ambition
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectlocal government
dc.titleThe Role of a Gendered Policy Agenda in Closing the Mayoral Ambition Gap: The Case of Texas Female City Council Members
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