Islam, gender segregation, and political engagement: evidence from an experiment in Tunisia
| Autor: | Sarah Sunn Bush, Lauren Prather |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Comparative politics Developing country Gender studies Islam Political engagement 02 engineering and technology Experimental research 0506 political science Representation (politics) Politics Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration |
| Zdroj: | Political Science Research and Methods. 9:728-744 |
| ISSN: | 2049-8489 2049-8470 |
| Popis: | The Arab world has historically had limited descriptive representation for women, although that is changing. Will having more women officeholders lead women citizens to become more engaged? Or could it depress engagement due to pervasive gender biases? To answer these questions, this paper uses a nationally-representative experiment in Tunisia. Unexpectedly, people were less likely to want to contact their representatives when primed to think of a mixed-gender group of officeholders compared to an all-women group. This pattern did not vary according to respondents’ gender. Further analyses reveal that the effect was concentrated among Islamists, which is consistent with some Islamists’ support for gender segregation. This finding encourages research examining women's political presence in conservative environments where gender segregation is common. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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