dc.contributor.author | GIGER, Nathalie | |
dc.contributor.author | HOLLI, Anne-Marie | |
dc.contributor.author | LEFKOFRIDI, Zoe | |
dc.contributor.author | WASS, Hanna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-19T18:00:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-19T18:00:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Electoral studies, 2014, Vol. 35, pp. 303-314 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0261-3794 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-6890 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33965 | |
dc.description.abstract | If parties nominate both male and female candidates, open-list PR electoral rules enable voters to engage in same-gender voting (i.e. select candidate of the same gender). In this regard, there is a gender gap in Finland, an otherwise highly egalitarian country: over time, men tend to support mostly male candidates, while women are roughly equally divided between male and female candidates. This study investigates whether voters' likelihood of selecting a candidate of the same gender is affected by contextual factors. Based on pooled cross-sectional data from five Finnish parliamentary elections between 1979 and 2011, it shows that gender differences in same-gender voting are substantially reduced when district magnitude and gender ratios among candidates and elected deputies are taken into account. | |
dc.language.iso | En | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Electoral studies | |
dc.subject | Open-list PR | |
dc.subject | Same-gender voting | |
dc.subject | District magnitude | |
dc.subject | Gender ratios | |
dc.subject | Women candidates | |
dc.subject | female candidates | |
dc.subject | electoral systems | |
dc.subject | national legislatures | |
dc.subject | district magnitudes | |
dc.subject | representation | |
dc.subject | election | |
dc.subject | stereotypes | |
dc.subject | voters | |
dc.subject | politics | |
dc.title | The gender gap in same-gender voting : the role of context | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.electstud.2014.02.009 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 35 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 303 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 314 | |
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