Books by Kim Fridkin Kahn

Looks at how campaigns actually work, from the framing of issues to media coverage to voters' decisions. Examining contested US Senate races between 1988 and 1992, this work challenges the common wisdom that campaigns are a noisy, symbolic aspect of electoral politics, in which the outcomes are determined mainly by presidential popularity.

Kahn examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of statewide campaigns.