Gender, Intersectionality, and American Party Politics

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

To what extent do the major political parties hinder or facilitate the emergence and representation of diverse candidates in political leadership? The papers on this panel seek to answer this question by considering how political party culture and party infrastructure (ie., campaign finance and organizations) might shape the emergence of gender diverse and intersectionally diverse candidates, as well as these candidates’ experiences navigating political opportunity structures at the local, state, and national levels.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women , Gender and Politics Research

Individual Presentations

• Democratic Party Culture, Infrastructure, and Candidate Emergence - Cecilia Ritacco, Georgetown University

• Self-Rising Candidates: Racial and Gender Disparities in Self-Finance - Savannah Plaskon, UC Irvine; Danielle Thomsen, University of California, Irvine

• Campaign Strategies of Black and Brown Republican Candidates - Paru Shah, Rutgers University

• Bonding Activities among Black Congresswomen and Surrogate Representation - Curtis Kelton Edmonds, Syracuse University

Chair

• Karra McCray Gibson Brown University

Discussant

• Kelly Dittmar Rutgers University-Camden