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Gender Gaps, Partisan Gaps, and Cross-Pressures: An Examination of American Attitudes toward the Use of Force
List of Authors: Michael A. Hansen, Jennifer C. Clemens, Kathleen Dolan
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Politics and Gender
Volume number: 18
Issue number: 1
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000690
URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/gender-gaps-partisan-gaps-and-crosspressures-an-examination-of-american-attitudes-toward-the-use-of-force/7C3865DD0FD5702E7145031DE46E4415
This article explores the gender gap in attitudes toward the use of military force in the United States. Given that the United States has been continuously engaged in war for the last 17 years, we revisit the topic and explore whether a gender gap in attitudes persists by utilizing Cooperative Congressional Election Study data for 2006–16. In addition, given the primacy of partisanship to issue attitudes, we go beyond examining the gender gap to explore the impact of partisanship on these attitudes. We find that women are less likely than men to support the use of force in most circumstances. We also find gender gaps in the Democratic and Republican parties and acknowledge the diversity among women and among men in these attitudes because of partisan identity. Finally, we identify points of cross-pressure on individuals whose gender and partisan identities pull them in different directions, namely, Republican women and Democratic men.
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