Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Recent work on party asymmetry in the United States characterizes the Democratic Party as a group-oriented party and the Republican Party as an ideologically oriented party. Gender studies of opinion preferences support a group-based conceptualization of the Democratic Party, with women being a represented group, but suggest the possibility that the Republican Party may exhibit greater ideological heterogeneity when differences based upon gender are considered. To this end, we investigate variations in policy opinions using a difference in means analysis comparing women and men congressional donors and men and women non-donating self-identifiers in the Republican Party. We also model congressional contributing among Republican women. Together, the results suggest that Republican women donors’ preferences converge with those of men. However, women non-donors are more moderate than women congressional donors, as well as men congressional donors and non-donors, suggesting there is greater ideological heterogeneity within the Republican Party than studies of party asymmetry report.
Recommended Citation
Baker, A., & Schneider, M. C. (2025). Party Convergence and Divergence Among Republican Women. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 46(3), 248–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2025.2481680
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Women, Politics & Policy in 2025, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2025.2481680.