CAWP Grant Research Briefs

In this project, Ditonto and Andersen investigate what likability means to voters and how gender, alongside other important attributes like race and partisanship, shape these perceptions.

Montoya investigates the opportunities and challenges that Colorado's 32 Latina legislators have and continue to face on the path to the statehouse. She uses archival research and personal interviews with 22 legislators.

In this research brief, Bueno Vásquez and Wright-Johnson interrogate the relationship between skin color, hair texture, and evaluations of Black women as social movement leaders.

Using interviews with Black women state legislators in Maryland and Louisiana, the authors examine how identity-based caucuses that champion a single vantage point – either race or gender – (Black caucuses, women’s caucuses) affect the legislative behavior and experience of Black women.

Ondercin and Cassese analyze responses to open-ended survey questions from the American National Election Studies (ANES) to investigate how ingrained gender-party associations are in voters' minds.

This brief looks at the experience of family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand if their caregiving role motivated or muted their desire to run for office. They find the relationship between caregiving and running for political office varies among and between women and men.

In an analysis of Twitter replies to major-party general election candidates for the U.S. House in 2020, Kim finds that white women candidates on average receive replies that are less toxic than white men while Black women candidates receive more toxic replies than Black men.

This study focuses on how voters perceive Black women (and their race-gender counterparts) as judges and prosecutors for elected office.

This study examines what motivates advocacy groups to engage in intersectional advocacy, which occurs when organizations or individuals advocate for linkages between policies and issues that reflect the experiences of intersectionally marginalized groups positioned between more than one problem area.

Martina Santia and Sylvia Gonzalez examine how women of color use emotions in their campaign messages and how voters react to these messages through two empirical investigations.

In this research brief, Carr asks: are Black women political elites evaluated more negatively by the American public compared to their counterparts of other race-gender groups?

Using an online experiment, Qi and Kim find areas of advantage for Asian American women candidates in comparison to white women candidates on various measures of candidate evaluation, something that may stand in contrast to expectations.

Through a survey of U.S. mayors in 2021 in cities of 10,000 in population and above, the authors find that violence against mayors is prevalent and that overlapping identities affect experiences of violence in significant ways.