I am honored to announce that I was awarded the Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship for 2024-2025
There have been some efforts to employ gender identity as an explanation for partisan sorting, but they have been overly simplistic. Not all men endorse traditional masculinity and not all women embrace traditional femininity, resulting in greater diversity among men and women than is currently reflected in political research (Cassino 2020; Luker 1985; McDermott 2016). Luker (1985) provides a perspective that allows us to account for the degree of differentiation between masculine and feminine individuals within and across the Democratic and Republican Parties. These gendered traits are an important part of one’s self-concept, but when trying to understand the role of gender in partisan sorting they are only useful for understanding the division between men in the Democratic and Republican Parties. Using feminine traits to understand partisan sorting does not work as well, but we can look to Luker (1985) to understand how the roles that men and women hold are influential in connecting their gender identities to politics. This underlying assumption has hindered a deeper understanding of the divides among women and among men that may influence their partisanship, candidate preferences, and policy positions. I argue that the differentiation of gender identity within the political parties is useful way to measure gender identity and evaluate its political consequences. This differentiation is based on the strength of one’s gender identity and their normative beliefs about gender in society. By evaluating the degree of gender differentiation within and across the Democratic and Republican Parties, the relationship between gender and partisan preferences becomes clearer. In a validation study, I evaluate a number of different ways to measure gender identity and evaluate the key types of validity for a measurement of gender identity. In an experimental study, I use the validated gender identity measures to demonstrate the influence of these gender identities on preferences for certain candidates.
Huddy, Leonie, and Maggie Martin (in press). Men Care Too: Gender, Empathy, and Political Compassion. Chapter in Masculinity in American Politics. Edited by Dan Cassino & Monika McDermott.
Huddy, Leonie, and Maggie Martin (working paper). The Political Consequences of Gender Identity.
Martin, Maggie, and Leonie Huddy. 2024. Report on Masculine-Feminine Gender Identity Measure Analysis of Items on ANES Pilot Study. Submitted to the ANES Board.
Martin, Maggie. (working paper). Personal Masculine & Feminine Identities in Relation to Candidate Identity.
Martin, Maggie (Dissertation Project in Progress). The Role of Masculine & Feminine Identities in American Politics.
Martin, Maggie, Hannah Nam, and Katherine Sawyer (data analysis phase). Explaining the Development of Political Ideology and Effects on Partisan Intolerance.
Martin, Maggie. 2024. Personal Masculine and Feminine Identities in Relation to Candidate Identity. Paper presented at the New Research on Gender in Political Psychology Conference at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Huddy, Leonie, and Maggie Martin. 2024. Political Consequences of Gender Identity. Paper presented at the annual EPOVB Conference at Florida State University.
Huddy, Leonie, Maggie Martin, and Lauren Palladino. 2023. Gender Identity and Partisan Sorting. Paper presented at the meeting of the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Huddy, Leonie, Maggie Martin, and Lauren Palladino. 2023. Gender Identity and Partisan Sorting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Huddy, Leonie, Maggie Martin, and Lauren Palladino. 2023. Gender Identity & Partisan Sorting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Montreal, Canada.
Huddy, Leonie, and Maggie McDonnell. 2022. Gender, Empathy, and Political Behavior. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
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