Political science

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Can't We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate ... (Political Science Now)

Concern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies. Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research ...

We show that women’s representation is associated with lower levels of partisan hostility and that both men and women partisans react positively to out-party women MPs. We evaluate this claim with an original dataset on women’s presence in 125 political parties in 20 Western democracies from 1996 to 2017 combined with survey data on partisans’ affective ratings of political opponents. Drawing on scholarship on women’s behavior as elected representatives and citizens’ beliefs about women politicians, we posit the women MPs affective bonus hypothesis: all else being equal, partisans display warmer affect toward out-parties with higher proportions of women MPs.

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Penn State political scientist wins prestigious Stein Rokkan Prize (Penn State News)

Vineeta Yadav, Penn State associate professor of political science, received the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for her book, ...

Her previous books include “Political Parties, Business Groups and Corruption in Developing Countries” (Oxford, 2011), which won the American Political Science Association’s 2013 Epstein Best Book award and the 2012 Alan Rosenthal Book award; “Democracy, Electoral Systems, and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries” (Michigan, 2014); and “The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships” (Cambridge, 2016). The book is the first comprehensive statistical analysis of religious organizations and parties in Muslim-majority countries to be conducted, and the first to measure their strength as well. The award — named to honor the legacy of Stein Rokkan, a groundbreaking comparative political and social science scholar — is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious international academic awards in political science.

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