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  • Does the Presence or Absence of Elections Remove Gender Differences in Ambition for Public Service?

  • Hans J.G. Hassell, Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr, Matthew R. Miles
  • Journal:
    British Journal of Political Science / Volume 55 / 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 February 2025, e6
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  • Perhaps because scholars of political ambition have focused almost entirely on electoral ambition, the presence of elections has been thought to play a major role in shaping who expresses interest in public service. In this article, we examine whether the presence or absence of elections changes women’s political ambition. Using surveys of law students, federal bureaucrats, and the general public, we find the relationship between gender and ambition for elected office is similar to the relationship between gender and ambition for bureaucratic and judicial service. We show that, although women are deterred from public service by the elections that act as gateways to those opportunities, the effects of elections on gendered political ambition duplicate the effects of other components of public service. Rather than unique, elections are duplicative in their effects, reinforcing the relationship between gender and ambition rather than fundamentally changing who expresses ambition for public service.