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Matthew Geras

@matthewgeras.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science- University of Illinois Springfield OU PhD- Former Fellow: Carl Albert Center parties, elections, Congress, representation views are my own

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Matthew Geras @matthewgeras.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy to share my latest article examining the gendered pathways to the position of state party chair. Women are more likely to serve as state party chair by working their way up through the party organization. Men more commonly leverage experience in elected office.
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Pathways to Party Power: Exploring the Gendered Paths to State Party Leadership
This paper evaluates whether the men and women who hold the position of state party chair have different previous experiences and explores which factors correlate with state parties electing women ...
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Matthew Geras @matthewgeras.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social and I examine public opinion of candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Based on a survey experiment, we argue the policy of allowing parents, particularly mothers, to use campaign funds to pay for childcare may reduce the gender gap in political representation.
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Matthew Geras @matthewgeras.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
This article is almost 6 years in the making. Great to see it finally find a home. @cjfinocchiaro.bsky.social Bennie Ashton Sarina Rhinehart www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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All in the family? Assessing the impact of child gender on congressional behavior
We examine the impact of having a daughter on the legislative behavior of members of Congress using original biographical data from 1973 to 2015. Previous research has produced mixed results. We le...
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Matthew Geras @matthewgeras.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I know many of my followers are experts on Congress and can speak eloquently about current events, but I am sharing the short piece I wrote for the UIS community on the House speaker vacancy. www.uis.edu/news/conside...
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