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Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science
Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science, presented a paper, “If He Can Run and Win, Surely She Can Too: (Re)Considering Gender and Political Candidacy in the Age of Trump” at the Oppenheimer Reconsidered conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University.
Rosalyn Cooperman
Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, presented “She Should (Not) Run: Party Activists and Women’s Place at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
Associate professor of Political Science Rosalyn Cooperman has been invited to join the editorial board of Political Behavior, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes and policies.
The journal is published in association with the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association.
Rosalyn Cooperman, political science professor, co-authored an op-ed in Vox.com addressing why so few women candidates are Republican.
“Different party cultures mean that Democratic elites support women candidates often — and because of their gender — while Republican elites do not,” according to the piece.
What ‘pink wave’? Why GOP women candidates are minding the gender gap (Yahoo.com)
“You can’t draw attention to your identity on the Republican side, but among Democrats that’s … valued, and expected,” says Rosalyn Cooperman, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. “Party culture becomes a very important way of understanding some of those differences.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pink-wave-why-gop-women-candidates-minding-gender-170405960.html