Replication Data for: Gender Identity as a Political Cue: Voter Responses to Transgender Candidates

Data, codebook, and replication code for \"Gender Identity as a Political Cue: Voter Responses to Transgender Candidates\". Abstract: Voters frequently use demographic characteristics such as race or gender as shortcuts when evaluating politicians. We use two survey experiments to show that a candidate’s gender identity (specifically whether they identify as the same gender as the sex they were assigned at birth) functions as a similar cue. When a news story identified a candidate as transgender, respondents rated them as more liberal and less likely to represent them, and less likely to receive their vote. The overall electoral penalty is moderated by voters’ party, ideology, religiosity, and authoritarianism. In contrast to research on other demographic cues, we find that these effects persist even in the presence of cues about the candidate’s party, suggesting that voters infer substantial information from politicians’ gender identity.本数据集包含论文《性别身份作为政治线索：选民对跨性别候选人的反应》的原始数据、编码手册（codebook）与复现代码（replication code）。 摘要：选民在评估政治候选人时，常以种族、性别这类人口统计学特征作为决策捷径。我们通过两项调查实验证实，候选人的性别身份——具体而言即其自我认同性别是否与其出生时被指派的生理性别一致——可发挥类似的线索作用。当新闻报道将某候选人标注为跨性别者（transgender）时，受访者会将其评价为更偏向左翼，且认为其更难以代表自身诉求、更难获得自己的选票。整体选举惩罚效应会因选民的党派立场、意识形态、宗教虔诚度与威权主义倾向而受到调节。与其他人口统计学线索的相关研究不同，我们发现即便存在候选人党派立场这类线索，上述效应依然存在，这表明选民会从政治人物的性别身份中推断出大量信息。