(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi
| Autor: | Amanda Clayton, Martha C. Johnson, Amanda Lea Robinson, Ragnhild L. Muriaas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
business.industry Qualitative evidence 05 social sciences Public opinion Survey experiment Experimental research 0506 political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Voting behavior 050207 economics business Psychology Social psychology health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Political Studies |
| ISSN: | 1552-3829 0010-4140 |
| Popis: | How do voters evaluate women candidates in places where traditional gender norms are strong? We conduct a survey experiment in Malawi to assess both whether citizens discriminate against women candidates and how other salient candidate characteristics—political experience, family status, policy focus, and gendered kinship practices—interact with candidate gender to affect citizen support. Contrary to our expectations, we find citizens prefer women candidates ceteris paribus, and women and men with the same traits are evaluated similarly. Yet, we find two unexpected ways women candidates are disadvantaged in the electoral process. First, we find that citizens prefer candidates who are married with young children, a profile much more common among men than women candidates in practice. Second, we find pervasive qualitative reports of negative campaigning that likely affected citizens’ evaluations of actual women candidates, while not affecting evaluations of hypothetical candidates. We discuss how our results speak to the ways gender biases operate in practice across political contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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