Replication Data for: Ethnonationalist Gender Norms: How Parties Shape Voter Attitudes to Women Candidates in India

How do parties shape voter attitudes to women candidates in multi-ethnic societies? We posit that parties associated with ethnonationalist gender norms - patriarchal norms applied to women from an ethnonationalist party’s core ethnic constituency - provide voters with informational cues about whether and how effectively the party’s women candidates of different ethnicities will represent their interests. In particular, voters’ support for an ethnonationalist party’s women candidates should vary depending on whether these candidates belong to the party’s core ethnic constituency. Evidence from an original conjoint survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar supports the argument. We find that upper-caste women candidates receive relatively less support when they are affiliated with the national ruling party whose ideology prescribes ethnonationalist gender norms targeting its core Hindu upper-caste constituency. Our results, which we further bolster usng real-world electoral data, illuminate how ethnonationalist gender norms can undermine voter support for elite women candidates.