How husbands and wives vote

Strøm, Marte

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014.01.006

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“…This is surprising, given the strong focus on microlevel preferences in the recent welfare state research and given the fact that-in line with the studies reported above-studies on voting behavior find strong household effects on electoral preferences, too (e.g., De Graaf and Heath 1992;Kan and Heath 2006;Strom 2014). Regarding the literature on dualization and insider-outsider divides, this relative neglect is particularly problematic since labor market vulnerability is so unequally spread between men and women.…”

Section: Sharing the Risk? Households Labor Market Vulnerability Anmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Much of the contributions in the voting literature, however, focus on mechanisms of interdependence such as communication, learning, and socialization (e.g., Johnston et al 2005;Zuckerman, Fitzgerald, and Dasovic 2005), rather than on economic interdependencies, which are at the heart of our question and the debates in economics and sociology. Nevertheless, a few studies do provide evidence that the household affects political preferences, especially for economically dependent spouses (De Graaf and Heath 1992;Kan and Heath 2006;Strom 2014). In light of these studies, we argue that the dualization literature needs to take household dynamics more seriously, both theoretically and empirically.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the extreme, an alignment of preferences within the household may prevent labor market vulnerability from becoming a manifest conflict line in politics altogether (Barrows 2012). However, previous research shows that household effects are conditional on gender (e.g., Kan and Heath 2006;Pollak 2003;Strom 2014). Therefore, we want to establish to what extent and especially under what conditions the household situation affects the impact of an individual's labor market vulnerability on his or her distributive preferences.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, they fail to differentiate theoretically and empirically divergent effects for men and women, thereby implicitly assuming symmetrical dependencies between both partners' labor market vulnerability. Given the existing research in sociology (Kan and Heath 2006), economics (Neugart 2008), and the study of voting behavior Rosenbluth 2006, 2010;Strom 2014), it is crucial to distinguish effects according to gender. Moreover, these existing studies do not allow us to evaluate the relevance of the household in terms of its demobilizing effect on political conflict around labor market vulnerability.…”

Section: Sharing the Risk? Households Labor Market Vulnerability Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe

Häusermann

Kurer

Schwander

2016

The Journal of Politics

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Explaining social policy preferences has become a major topic in comparative politics with labor market risk as a key determinant of these preferences. However, one question continues to loom large: are preference divides blurred by mixed households, that is, secure labor market participants living with vulnerable partners? In this article, we build on the insider-outsider literature and show that while the household does matter, its mitigating effect is limited in scope and strongly conditional on gender. Women's preferences depend on their partner's labor market situation, while men's preferences are unaffected by it. Overall, only a small minority of the population across Western Europe benefits from a "household safety net." Our findings have important implications for understanding the politicization of insider-outsider divides.

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Section: Sharing the Risk? Households Labor Market Vulnerability Anmentioning

confidence: 81%

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sharing the Risk? Households Labor Market Vulnerability Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe

Häusermann

Kurer

Schwander

2016

The Journal of Politics

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“…The argument goes that outsiders will base their political behavior of the situation of the household, rather than on their personal situation. The household issue touches the old question whether the individual or the household represents the adequate unit of analysis, a question also vivid in the voting literature (Strøm 2014), in political economy (Iversen and Rosenbluth 2006) and sociology (Graaf and Heath 1992). A recent study tackled this question explicitly and tested the relevance of the household in the translation of labor market divides into preference-divides (Häusermann et al .…”

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Labor market insecurity among the middle class: a cross-pressured group

Schwander

2019

PSRM

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The political relevance of labor market insecurity has been questioned because (a) insider-outsider divides were considered to be a divide within the low-skilled and politically less active working class and (b) labor market insecurity runs through the middle of the household. Outsiders might therefore align their preferences with those of insiders. This contribution provides, first, evidence that labor market insecurity extends well into the higher-skilled middle class, in particular to high-skilled young adults and high-skilled women. Second, the contribution sheds light on the “household question”, that is the question whether mixed households dampen the political relevance of labor market insecurity. If labor market insecurity is concentrated in specific social groups (young adults, women) that tend to cohabit with secure insiders, the political relevance of labor market insecurity might depend on whether or not outsiders align their preferences with those of the household. In this contribution, I discuss recent work on the relevance of the household in translating labor market divides into preferences divides presenting recent work that shows that the household does not render insider-outsider divides politically irrelevant. In sum, insider-outsider divides have all the potential to become politically relevant.

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Looking inside the ballot box: gender gaps in Argentine presidential elections

Bercoff

Meloni

2023

Int Rev Econ

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Since women were given the right to vote in the rst half of the 20 th century, several studies verify the existence of noticeable differences in women and men voting conduct. Theories explaining such behavior rely mainly on stereotypes, differences in values as well as disparities in self perceptions of men and women This paper, using a unique and unusual gender-segregated voting booths that was in use in Argentina until 2007, suggests that labor market incentives play a key role explaining the electoral gender gap. Our estimations, which come out from a panel data of ve presidential elections at district level, show that the voting gender gap reduces as women acquire the head of household status. That is, as women face analogous incentives to men, their evaluation of the incumbent performance and their policies tend to be similar to males leading to a reduction in the gender gap.

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How husbands and wives vote

Cited by 10 publications

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Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe

Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe

Labor market insecurity among the middle class: a cross-pressured group

Looking inside the ballot box: gender gaps in Argentine presidential elections

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