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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Zipper system


 * Article Evaluation
 * This topic is important because it is about a political proportional representation system of order candidates that dictates the alternating of men and women on a party's candidate list. In this way, the system attempts to achieve greater gender parity within the legislature. This article, however, is a stub. There is very little information on the topic, with much to expand on the real world uses of the system, as well as the positive effects and its shortcomings. The organization of the existing information could also use some editing.


 * Sources
 * Delgado-Márquez, B.L., Ramírez-González, V. & López-Carmona, A. Ensuring Parliamentary Gender Equality Through a New Zipper Method: An Application to Finland. Soc Indic Res 116, 475–492 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0301-3
 * Yandam, Colin J. J., "Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Participation in Slovenia and Croatia: When Similar Historical Developments and Homogeneity of Design Yield Different Outcomes" (2018). Student Publications. 635. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/635

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Voting gender gap in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article covers the topic of the voting preference gap between men and women in the United States, which is an important phenomenon in the realm of Gender and Politics because of the divergence in party preference between men and women and the implications thereof. However, this article does little more than report the surface level statistics while glossing over the deeper impacts that this effect might be caused by and the effects that it has on US politics. Therefore, more work is needed to expand the article's scope. The article also primarily focuses on presidential elections with a brief mention of congressional elections, so the addition of more information on congressional and state level elections in the US is needed. There is also no cross-country comparison of the US to show that the topic of the gender gap in the US is unique.


 * Sources
 * Simone Abendschön, Stephanie Steinmetz, The Gender Gap in Voting Revisited: Women's Party Preferences in a European Context, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 21, Issue 2, Summer 2014, Pages 315–344, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxu009
 * Paul M. Kellstedt, David A. M. Peterson, Mark D. Ramirez, The Macro Politics of a Gender Gap, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 74, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Pages 477–498, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq003

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Political socialization


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is relevant to Gender and Politics because political socialization is a big factor in most gender inequities in politics, ranging from the voting gap, conventional participation gap, the party preference gap, to the way in which men and women candidates are viewed. The article on political socialization is very incomplete. It makes no mention of gender as a factor, which would be the focus of the edits. Additionally, after listing the "agents of socialization," the article thereafter only focuses on the media's influence on political socialization, so there is a lot of content that needs to be added.


 * Sources
 * Quintelier E. Engaging Adolescents in Politics: The Longitudinal Effect of Political Socialization Agents. Youth & Society. 2015;47(1):51-69. doi:10.1177/0044118X13507295 Marc Hooghe & Dietlind Stolle (2004) Good Girls Go to the Polling Booth, Bad Boys Go Everywhere, Women & Politics, 26:3-4, 1-23, DOI: 10.1300/J014v26n03_01