Roundtable Participant - Lotte Hargrave

Lotte Hargrave is a Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the University of Manchester. Her work uses quantitative text techniques and survey experiments to study the dynamic influence of gender stereotypes on how politicians behave and how voters engage with this behaviour. Given emerging evidence that voters do not discriminate against women at the ballot box, in new work she is studying what drives support for women politicians. Specifically, Hargrave’s recent quantitative work unpacks whether voters vote for women simply because they are women, or because they make assumptions about the kinds of policy platforms women will promote once in office.