Are the Young Undemocratic? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

Huttunen, Janette; Saikkonen, Inga

doi:10.1080/00344893.2023.2242386

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“…Several scholars have focused on global dynamics of democratic backsliding (Bermeo, 2016;Waldner and Lust, 2018;Bartels et al, 2023). It has been shown that citizens are increasingly willing to accept democratically elected leaders violating central democratic norms that have otherwise been regarded as indispensable parts of democracy (Graham and Svolik, 2020;Svolik, 2020;Carey et al, 2022;Frederiksen, 2022;Gidengil et al, 2022;Lewandowsky and Jankowski, 2022;Mazepus and Toshkov, 2022;Huttunen and Saikkonen, 2023;Saikkonen and Christensen, 2023). Most studies focus on attitudinal factors.…”

Section: Evaluating Violations Of Democratic Norms and The Role Of Ge...mentioning

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Gender and Support for Undemocratic Politicians

Christensen,

Hansen,

Saikkonen

2024

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Several studies have examined whether attitudinal factors make people morewilling to acceptpolitical elites violating basic democratic norms. However, the role of more basic sociodemographiccharacteristics such as gender remains underexplored. This may be a mistake since studies suggeststhat these influence the evaluation of democratic transgressions. We focus on the role of gender inthe evaluations of democratic transgressions and reexamine data from two conjoint experimentsconducted in Finland. We examine whether the gender of the politician violating the democraticnorms matters; whether the gender of the person judging the democratic violations matters, andwhether it matters when both the candidate and the respondent are of the same gender matter forthe evaluation of the democratic violation. Our results indicate that g ender plays at best a limitedrole, since we find no evidence that candidate gender or the gender of the respondent matters forthe evaluations.

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Section: Evaluating Violations Of Democratic Norms and The Role Of Ge...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Support for Undemocratic Politicians

Christensen,

Hansen,

Saikkonen

2024

Preprint

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“…An emerging set of literature has shown that citizens are increasingly willing to accept democratically elected leaders transgressing central democratic norms, such as judicial independence, that have previously been regarded as indispensable parts of democracy Svolik, 2020;Carey et al, 2022;Frederiksen, 2022;Gidengil et al, 2022;Lewandowsky and Jankowski, 2022;Mazepus and Toshkov, 2022;Huttunen and Saikkonen, 2023;Saikkonen and Christensen, 2023).…”

Section: Evaluating Violations Of Democratic Norms and The Role Of Ge...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other studies have examined the role of socio-demographic characteristics of citizens, such as their age, level of education, religiousness and urban or rural residency in explaining support for undemocratic politicians (Huttunen and Saikkonen, 2023;Wunsch and Gessler, 2023). However, to our knowledge, no studies have yet examined whether men or women differ in their propensity to support undemocratic politicians.…”

Section: Evaluating Violations Of Democratic Norms and The Role Of Ge...mentioning

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Gender and support for undemocratic politicians

Christensen,

Hansen,

Saikkonen

2024

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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Several studies have examined whether attitudinal factors make people more willing to accept political elites violating basic democratic norms. However, the role of more basic socio-demographic characteristics, such as gender, remains underexplored. This may be a mistake, as studies suggest that these influence the evaluation of democratic transgressions. We focus on the role of gender in evaluations of democratic transgressions and re-examine data from two conjoint experiments conducted in Finland. We examine whether the gender of the politician violating democratic norms matters, whether the gender of the person judging the democratic violations matters, and whether it matters for the evaluation of the democratic violation when both the candidate and the respondent are of the same gender. Our results indicate that gender plays at best a limited role, as we find no evidence that candidate gender or the gender of the respondent matters for the evaluations.

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‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs

SCHWAIGER,

BÄCHTIGER

2024

European J Political Res

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While representing the next generation of democratic citizens, research on process preferences of adolescents is in its infancy. To analyse what institutional designs adolescents favour, we conducted a conjoint experiment with a unique, representative sample of 1,970 German pupils between the age of 14–17. We find that adolescents in general are ‘status quo’– democrats, preferring a parliament (representing the central institution of the existing representative system) to alternative institutions, namely citizen forums and an assertive leader. However, support for the status quo comes with several qualifications, namely expert input, slow and considerate political processes and a final referendum. Furthermore, we find differences between subgroups, whereby dissatisfied adolescents are more open to citizen forums and an assertive leader than satisfied adolescents. By contrast, more sophisticated adolescents have stronger preferences for the parliament as the main institution. Overall, our results suggest that a major overhaul of the democratic infrastructure does not seem to be a priority for the next generation of citizens, although there is some desire for innovation, namely the ‘blending’ of representative institutions with more citizen participation.

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Are the Young Undemocratic? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

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Gender and Support for Undemocratic Politicians

Gender and Support for Undemocratic Politicians

Gender and support for undemocratic politicians

‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs

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