Effects of Interviewer–Respondent Gender Interaction on Attitudes toward Women and Politics: Findings from Morocco

Benstead, Lindsay J.

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edt024

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“…The literature has generally held education to be a positive predictor of progressive attitudes toward women's rights (Bolzendahl & Myers, 2004;Cunningham, 2008;Norris & Inglehart, 2003;Moen, Erickson, & Dempster-McClain, 1997;Plutzer, 1988 (Benstead, 2013;Kane & Macaulay, 1993). Thus, we might expect those who were interviewed by a female enumerator to exhibit more progressive attitudes toward women's leadership, regardless of the treatment administered to them.…”

Section: • • the Respondent's Level Of Education: We Divide Respondenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first is that female respondents might be expected to be more likely than men to express support for female leadership prior to treatment. The second is that female enumerators are generally more likely to elicit the expression of this view than male ones (Benstead, 2013). The former suggests that women might be less responsive to the treatment than men (as men have further to travel); the latter that the treatment should be more potent when delivered by female interviewers than by males.…”

Section: Heterogeneous Treatment Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

Masoud

Jamal

Nugent

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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A growing body of scholarship on the political and economic subordination of women in the Muslim world has argued that widespread patriarchal attitudes toward women's roles in public life can be ameliorated by offering progressive reinterpretations of Islamic scriptures. In this article, we explore this hypothesis with a large-scale survey experiment conducted among adult Egyptians in late 2013. In the study, a subset of respondents were exposed to an argument in favor of women's political equality that was grounded in the Qur'ān, Islam's holiest text. We found that this group was significantly more willing to express approval of female political leadership than those exposed to a non-religious argument in favor of women's eligibility for political leadership. A further analysis of conditional treatment effects suggests that the religious justification for female political leadership was more likely to elicit agreement among less educated and less pious respondents, and when delivered by women and targeted at men. Our findings suggest that Islamic discourse, so often used to justify the political exclusion of women, can also be used to help empower them.

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Section: • • the Respondent's Level Of Education: We Divide Respondenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heterogeneous Treatment Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

Masoud

Jamal

Nugent

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Self-report or surveys suffer from heavy bias, for example, the Theory of Social Desirability posit that interviewees will tend to avoid socially unacceptable responses or will tend to provide answers which he or she perceives to be matching the value system of the interviewer (Hamelin, El Moujaid and Taichon, 2017;Benstead, 2013). It was suggested that online questionnaire would lessen the impact of social desirability and that respondent would provide more truthful answer, but a recent research confirmed that the bias was identical online, offline and paper surveys.…”

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Negative Marketing in Political Campaigns and Its Effect on the Voting Decision of the Indian Millennial

Hamelin¹,

Mandrekar²,

Harcar

2019

EJBE

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In an unprecedented event, the current ruling party of India -the BJP -won the UP election in 2017 after 15 years of domination by the Congress. In 2016, when all the pollsters and pundits statistically analyzed the ongoing election for US Presidency and predicted a Hillary Clinton victory, they all got it wrong. While the results seem miraculous in the eyes of the experts, the careful strategy executed by the political campaigners of all these parties involved a unique process of market segmentation, but more importantly, an effective manipulation of social media that was strong enough to change voting behavior. In this research we conducted a study that mimicked a social media political campaign of three Indian political parties and measured the effect of positive and negative fake news on the voting intention of the Indian millennial. We submitted the participants to a series or positive or negative news -all fabricatedabout 3 main Indian political figures, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi, while monitoring their subconscious emotional state. The results were stunning. We found that a mere 60 seconds was enough to heighten the participant emotional state and significantly alter participant perception and ratings about these politicians.

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“…Moreover, these characteristics can have interaction effects. More recent research (Benstead, 2013(Benstead, , 2014 demonstrated an interaction of interviewer effects between gender and religiosity (operationalized as wearing hijab) in Morocco, as religious respondents reported differently to an unveiled interviewer.…”

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Toward a social psychology of survey methodology: An application of the approach and directions for the future

Brenner

2017

Sociology Compass

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Survey methodology is a relatively new academic discipline focused on understanding sources of survey errors. As an interdisciplinary field, survey methodology borrows theoretical approaches from other disciplines and applies them to understand how survey respondents answer questions. One field in particular, cognitive psychology, has played a central role in the development of survey methodology. The cognitive approach has focused researchers' attentions on the sources of error at each stage of the cognitive process respondents use to answer a survey question: comprehension of the question, recollection of relevant information, estimation and judgment, and reporting an answer. Although this focus on the cognitive response process has been positive and fruitful, potentially strong social and interactional influences on the response process have been underinvestigated and undertheorized. Thus, this essay argues for a revitalized research program in the sociological social psychology of survey methodology, given its rich body of theory and research. The current strengths of social psychological and interactional approaches are highlighted, focusing primarily on recent work using identity theory to understand social desirability biases. Finally, potentially fruitful future directions for research are proposed, matching sociological social psychological theories to the survey errors upon which they may shed light.

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Effects of Interviewer–Respondent Gender Interaction on Attitudes toward Women and Politics: Findings from Morocco

Cited by 62 publications

References 32 publications

Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

Negative Marketing in Political Campaigns and Its Effect on the Voting Decision of the Indian Millennial

Toward a social psychology of survey methodology: An application of the approach and directions for the future

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