A Gender Gap in Voting? Women and Men in the 2013 Elections

Shamir, Michal; Gedalya-Lavy, Einat

doi:10.4324/9781351295840-13

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“…In the case of Israel, previous research has shown that women often do not differ from men in their support for positions associated with the radical‐right. For example, women were found to be as hawkish as men in their positions on security and foreign affairs issues (Shamir & Gedalya‐Lavy 2015), and as more supportive than men of social exclusion and marginalization of minority out‐groups (Ben Shitrit et al. 2017).…”

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‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

Ben-Shitrit

Elad‐Strenger

Hirsch-Hoefler

2021

European J Political Res

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Across the globe, women are increasingly more visible as leaders and activists in radical-right parties and movements. Does women's visibility in radical-right politics, both institutionalized and non-institutionalized, affect public acceptance of radical-right agendas? The present paper proposes a 'radical-right gender mainstreaming model', arguing that women in radical-right politics are perceived by the general public through a prism of feminine gender stereotypes, which counteract radical-right parties' and movements' masculine stereotypes, thus 'softening' their image and making them more acceptable to the general public. Across four experimental studies conducted in the Israeli context, we find strong evidence that women's visibility as radical-right parliamentary representatives (Studies 1a and 1b) and as radical-right political activists (Studies 2a and 2b) increases acceptance of and support for these parties' and movements' agenda, particularly among women. We further demonstrate that these effects are mediated by the attribution of feminine stereotypes (warmth) to women versus men political actors. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Section: The Radical‐right Gender Gapmentioning

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‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

Ben-Shitrit

Elad‐Strenger

Hirsch-Hoefler

2021

European J Political Res

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“…We propose that this conflict‐related identity emphasizing the need for unity against the rival in many cases overshadows gender differences as well as other intragroup identities and social divides. Among Jewish Israelis, for example, no gender difference in voting for right versus left parties was found for decades (with the exception of the 2013 elections), although such differences have consistently been found since the 1990s in other Western democracies (Shamir & Gedalya‐Lavy, 2015).…”

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Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society

Rosler

Yuchtman‐Yaar

Alkalay

2022

Political Psychology

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The question of whether women are more oriented towards peace has been debated in the research literature for several decades but has not been systematically tested in conflict‐driven areas. The aim of our article is twofold: (1) to suggest a conceptual framework regarding gender differences in support for peace in intractable conflict and test it in a prominent case study; and (2) to examine whether major events leading to conflict reescalation have differential effects on women and men. Across 145 polls carried out on a monthly basis among nationally representative samples of Jewish‐Israelis between 1995 and 2006, we found only marginally higher levels of support for the Oslo Accords among women versus men, while conflict‐related worldviews—political ideology and religiosity—had a much larger effect. Furthermore, violent reescalation in the conflict had a stronger effect on reducing men's levels of support for the Oslo Accords than those of women. Robustness analysis of 196 monthly surveys from 2002 until 2018 examining the effect of gender on support for negotiation provided further support for our findings. Overall, our analyses indicate that sex‐based differences play a minor role in explaining attitudes towards peace in situations of protracted violent conflicts at different stages, compared to the prominent effects of political ideology and religiosity.

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Electoral Behavior in Israel

Shapira¹,

Rahat²

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society

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This chapter reviews, analyzes, and explains general patterns of electoral behavior in national elections in Israel from 1949 to 2019. It examines both patterns of voter turnout and the choice of a specific party. While it looks at historical trends, it focuses mainly on more recent developments. The types of factors that explain variance and trends in these behavioral patterns are not unique to Israel. Yet the specific relative weight of each factor clearly tells much of the story of Israeli politics. These factors include, especially, the influence of religiosity on Jewish voting patterns and the separate development in voting patterns (turnout and party choice) of the minority population of Israeli Arab citizens.

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A Gender Gap in Voting? Women and Men in the 2013 Elections

Cited by 3 publications

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‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society

Electoral Behavior in Israel

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