Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden

Håkansson, Sandra

doi:10.1017/s1743923x23000144

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“…A relatively new approach to generating data on people's views and attitudes that shape their actions are survey experiments. Devroe and Wauters (2018), for instance, use a survey experiment to study how Belgian voters perceive women and men candidates (see also Håkansson 2023). Another relatively recent innovation in the FI literature is the use of quantitative text analysis as a way of analyzing large corpuses of textual material.…”

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Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach

Grahn

2023

Pol & Gen

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The gender and politics literature offers diverse views on the causes of gendered practices and the best methodologies for studying them. This article advances efforts to take stock of and systematize this diversity by grounding the feminist institutionalist perspective in critical realism. The article posits that gendered institutions are real entities with independent powers, while also emphasizing the crucial role that human ideas play in upholding and contesting gendered practices. To faithfully capture gendered institutions and their relationship with human agency, the article promotes the use of the abductive-retroductive research design. This approach allows feminist institutionalist scholars to construct and test multiple competing theories about gendered institutions, drawing from various empirical manifestations of institutional power. These expressions range from observable actions to codified rules, socially shared norms, and other subtle discourses. By shedding light on the principles at the heart of realist-oriented feminist research, this work paves the way for a more standardized and transparent approach to feminist inquiries.

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Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach

Grahn

2023

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Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians’ Own Perceptions

Pedersen,

Petersen,

Thau

2024

Polit Behav

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Criticism from dissatisfied citizens is an inevitable part of being an elected politician in a democracy. However, when negative feedback from citizens turns into outright abuse, this can have pernicious personal and democratic consequences. In this study, we therefore investigate how politicians perceive criticisms, insults, threats, and sexist remarks in social media comments. Based on a survey experiment with more than 700 politicians from the local, regional, and national levels, we show that politicians’ assessment of the abusiveness of negative messages are not only affected by the content of the messages but also by political ideology and gender. Left-leaning politicians find negative social media comments to be more abusive than right-leaning politicians do. In addition, politicians are more averse to negative comments targeting women than negative comments targeting men, and male politicians are generally less averse to negative comments than female politicians are. Somewhat surprisingly, politicians are generally not affected by in-party biases, as they exhibit similar levels of aversion towards negative messages directed at co-partisans and out-partisans. While previous research has focused on the extent to which politicians receive online abuse, few studies have examined how politicians perceive potentially abusive messages, and our study thus provides novel insights into what exactly politicians consider to be abusive behavior on social media.

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Gender, Religion, and Political Violence: Lessons from Muslim Women’s Experiences in UK Elections

Akhtar,

Jenichen,

Intezar

2024

Pol & Gen

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Violence against women in politics is on the rise, threatening political achievements with respect to equality. Little research, however, has been conducted on the experiences of women from minority communities. This article, therefore, takes an intersectional approach to explore how gender, religion, and other categories of difference intersect when it comes to Muslim women’s experiences in the UK. Based on a longitudinal case study of Bradford West during the 2015, 2017, and 2019 general elections that combines participant observations, qualitative interviews, and a Twitter analysis, we argue that, in addition to the violence often experienced by women, Muslim women are also confronted with Islamophobic bias and abuse, as well as intersectional intimidation and harassment from within the Muslim community in their constituencies. Our case study approach, however, also reveals the existence of appreciation and support for Muslim women in politics that needs to be nurtured to counter abuse.

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Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach

Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach

Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians’ Own Perceptions

Gender, Religion, and Political Violence: Lessons from Muslim Women’s Experiences in UK Elections

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