The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap

Iversen, Torben; Rosenbluth, Frances McCall

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00166.x

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“…Joanna Everitt (2002) has suggested that employment levels and reliance on the welfare state, the development of a gender-consciousness, and changing patterns of socialization have led to the development of the gender gap in political attitudes. A similar argument has been put forth more recently by Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth (2006). Gidengil et al (2003) also explored a variety of explanations for the gender gap, including structural factors and socio-psychological explanations, and their findings suggested that socio-psychological origins prove to be a more robust explanation of differences of opinion.…”

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The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages: Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada

Bittner

2007

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Abstract:This paper examines the relationship between social group identity and level of political information in explaining Canadians' issue attitudes and vote choices. Traditional accounts of Canadians' partisan political leanings have placed a great deal of emphasis on social group identity in explaining attitudes. However based on data from the Canadian Election Studies from 1988-2004, it is argued that both social group identity and information influence the nature of vote choice and public opinion in Canada. In fact, level of voter information has two contradictory effects on the political attitudes of different social groups. In some cases voters' level of information reduces the role of social group identity in explaining attitudes and vote choices; information acts to 'bridge' the differences between different social groups (for example Catholics/non-Catholics and urban/rural Canadians). In other cases, voters' level of information acts to 'amplify' the importance of social group identity in predicting attitudes (for example women/men and religious/non-religious). These findings suggest that not only is social group identity a less effective predictor of attitudes than has traditionally been thought; but that there are also significant underlying differences between the so-called 'old' and 'new' cleavages in Canada when it comes to understanding their impact on political values.Résumé: Ce texte examine la relation entre les bases sociologiques et le niveau d'information politique dans l'explication des attitudes vis-à-vis des questions d'intérêt politique et des choix de vote des Canadiens. Les analyses traditionnelles des appuis aux partis des Canadiens ont affirmé que les bases sociologiques sont d'une grande importance pour expliquer les attitudes. Cependant, en nous appuyant sur les données des Études électorales canadiennes de 1988 à 2004, nous défendons la thèse selon laquelle à la fois les bases sociologiques et l'information influencent la nature du choix de vote et de l'opinion publique au Canada. En réalité, le niveau d'information des électeurs produit deux effets contradictoires vis-à-vis des attitudes politiques des différents groupes sociaux. Dans certains cas, le niveau d'information des électeurs réduit le rôle de la base sociologique dans l'explication des attitudes et des choix de vote ; l'information est un moyen d'outrepasser les différences entre divers groups sociaux (par exemple catholiques/non-catholiques et Canadiens en milieu urbain/rural). En d'autres cas, le niveau d'information des électeurs "amplifie" l'importance de la base sociologique en prédisant les attitudes (par exemple femmes/hommes et religieux/non-religieux). Ces découvertes suggèrent que la base sociologique est un indicateur moins efficace que les analyses traditionnelles ne le supposent pour prédire les attitudes. De surcroît, il y a des différences sousjacentes et importantes entre les soi-disant "anciens" et "nouveaux" clivages au Canada pour comprendre leur impact vis-à-vis des valeurs politiques.

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Section: The Gender Gapmentioning

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The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages: Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada

Bittner

2007

CJP

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“…Suffice it to say that, aside from employment opportunities for low-income households, marital instability and its concomitant, single-headed households, constitutes the most obvious factor that might explain the cross-national variation in inequality trajectories shown in Figure 2. The Nordic countries are distinguished by high divorce rates (Iversen and Rosenbluth 2004). From the point of view of timing, however, the employment crisis experienced by the Nordic countries, especially Sweden and Finland, in the early 1990s would appear to provide a more powerful explanation of the rise of household inequality in these countries.…”

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Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Kenworthy

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2005

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“…According to either measure, Denmark is in the set of countries they study with relatively high divorce rates. 8 Iversen and Rosenbluth (2006) discuss how the gender gap arose earlier in Scandinavian countries than other western countries and trace the relationship between structural and economic changes in these countries and the gender gap. characteristic of other western developed countries.…”

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Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

2016

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What explains the gender gap in ideology, i.e. the observation that women tend to be more leftist than men? We provide new evidence showing that personality traits play a key role. Using a novel high-quality data set, we show that the mediating (i.e. indirect) effects of gender operating through personality traits by far dominate the direct effects of gender. They also dominate other potential differences between the sexes like income or education as explanatory factors. Our findings suggest that women tend to be more leftist than men mainly because they have different personalities, which, in turn, shape their expressed ideology. Taking such mediating effects of personality traits into account explains over three quarters of the observed gender gap in general ideological preferences.JEL codes: C12, D79

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The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap

Cited by 295 publications

References 39 publications

The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages: Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada

The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages: Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada

Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

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