Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19

McMahon, Nicole; Sayers, Anthony; Alcantara, Christopher

doi:10.1177/13540688211047768

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“…Most of these larger normative differences were reflected to some extent when considering the observed preferences of donors within the sample (i.e., the causes participants had supported in the previous year). Beyond this study, identified normative causes also align with evidence that men are more likely to actually support sports charities (Piper & Schnepf, 2008) and political charities (McMahon et al, 2023;Showers et al, 2011), while women are more likely to actually support animal charities (Piper & Schnepf, 2008;Srnka et al, 2003). Social norms therefore may be the mechanism which explains why men and women are more or less likely to support these causes.…”

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We Usually Give Like This: Social Norms Describe Typical Charitable Causes Supported by Group Members

Chapman

Dixon

Wallin

et al. 2023

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Millions of nonprofits compete for a share of the billions of dollars donated to charity each year. Yet how donors select which charities to support remains relatively understudied. Social norms influence whether people give to charity at all, but no research has yet considered whether norms also communicate information about which causes group members typically support. To address this important question, we surveyed 1,735 people from 117 countries to understand whether they identified normative causes typically supported by their social groups. We found different normative giving profiles for men, women, older people, younger people, conservatives, progressives, religious, and nonreligious people, with varying degrees of consensus within each social group. Results demonstrate empirically—and for the first time—that social identities contain normative content about which charitable causes group members typically support. Some causes were relatively universally approved of or avoided. Results can inform nonprofit fundraising strategy around segmentation and targeting.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

We Usually Give Like This: Social Norms Describe Typical Charitable Causes Supported by Group Members

Chapman

Dixon

Wallin

et al. 2023

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…We also include a variable for the gender of the leadership contestant. Many of the financial aspects of party politics have been found to be gendered, with donations to women candidates following an affinity pattern (Tolley et al 2022) and with women donating less in general (McMahon et al 2021). 14 If donors are motivated by affinity more than a connection with the party, those who supported a woman leadership candidate may be less likely to continue donating to the party afterwards.…”

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Sour Grapes? Party Donors and Canadian Leadership Primaries

Pruysers

2023

Gov. & oppos.

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Political parties around the world are adopting primaries to select leaders and legislative candidates. While a large, though inconclusive, literature has emerged in the American context to explore the consequences of primaries, little attention has been devoted to other national contexts. Exploring patterns of financial donation, this study examines whether individuals who supported a losing leadership candidate are less likely to exhibit subsequent financial commitment to the party compared to those donors whose preferred candidate won the internal election. Drawing upon a novel dataset that includes tens of thousands of donors to recent leadership elections in Canada, we demonstrate that intra-party winners (i.e. those who supported the winning leadership candidate) are more likely to be financially committed to the party in the year after the election than those who supported losers. Results suggest that open and inclusive elections, while participatory in nature, may come at a cost for political parties as losers withdraw from the party in the wake of their loss.

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Where do donors come from? Using census data to predict donations to Canadian federal election candidates

Garnett

2024

Political Geography

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Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

We Usually Give Like This: Social Norms Describe Typical Charitable Causes Supported by Group Members

We Usually Give Like This: Social Norms Describe Typical Charitable Causes Supported by Group Members

Sour Grapes? Party Donors and Canadian Leadership Primaries

Where do donors come from? Using census data to predict donations to Canadian federal election candidates

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