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Gender Equality Mood across States and over Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Julianna Koch  and
Danielle M. Thomsen
Julianna Koch
Affiliation:
BuzzBack Market Research, NY, USA
Danielle M. Thomsen*
Affiliation:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
*
Danielle M. Thomsen, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 100 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1100, USA. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article provides a new measure of state-level attitudes toward gender roles. Our series, gender equality mood, spans from 1972 to 2010 and is the first measure to capture variation in gender-role attitudes across states and over time. The series is created using two leading techniques for opinion estimation: multilevel regression and poststratification and survey aggregation. We conclude by discussing several research areas in which our measure of gender equality mood may be especially useful.

Keywords

gender politicspublic opinionmethodologyissue preferencespolitical culture
Type
Research Article
Information
State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 351 - 360
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2017

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