Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections

Women Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican and women of color are majority Democratic voters. Second, due to the unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, white women have greater agency to sort by partisan preference, whereas women of color have more limited choice in their partisan support. Finally, the authors emphasize compositional change in the electorate as an important explanation of electoral outcomes.
This Element, Women Voters, documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. Women are diverse and politically heterogeneous, and unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, and compositional change in the electorate an important explanation of electoral outcomes.