Q. Why do gender gaps in political attitudes and voting change over time? (PPE 2018)
Your Reading List for this Week
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Clayton, Amanda. 2021. “How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?.” Annual Review of Political Science 24(1): 235–52.
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*Dassonneville, Ruth, and Filip Kostelka. 2020. “The Cultural Sources of the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout.” British Journal of Political Science.
Edlund, Lena, Rohini Pande, 2002. Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Emmenegger, P, and P Manow. 2014. “Religion and the Gender Vote Gap: Women's Changed Political Preferences from the 1970s to 2010.” Politics & Society 42(2): 166–193.
*Fox, Richard L., and Jennifer L. Lawless. 2011. “Gendered Perceptions and Political Candidacies: A Central Barrier to Women's Equality in Electoral Politics.” American Journal of Political Science 55(1): 59–73.
*Gillion, Daniel Q, Jonathan M Ladd, and Marc Meredith. 2018. “Party Polarization, Ideological Sorting and the Emergence of the US Partisan Gender Gap.” British Journal of Political Science 51.
*Paxton, Pamela and Kunovich, Sheri (2003). Women's political representation: The importance of ideology. Social Forces, 82(1): 87-113.
*Shorrocks, Rosalind. 2021. Women, Men, and Elections: Policy Supply and Gendered Voting Behaviour in Western Democracies. Routledge
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Gender and Political Representation
Gender Gaps in Political Attitudes and Voting
Gender gaps in political attitudes and voting change over time due to evolving social norms, education, and economic empowerment.
Women's rights movements and political representation of women play a crucial role in narrowing gender gaps.