Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain

Frazer, Elizabeth; MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00413

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“…These differences are not unique to the United States. Frazer and Macdonald (2003) report the same finding in the United Kingdom, as do several studies of the distribution of political interest and knowledge in Western Europe (Banducci and Semetko 2002;Inglehart 1981;Randall 1987). The political knowledge gender gap is real, and it exists across time and space.…”

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confidence: 68%

Gender Differences in Political Knowledge: Distinguishing Characteristics-Based and Returns-Based Differences

Dow

2008

Polit Behav

117

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This study assesses whether gender-based differences in political knowledge primarily result from differences in observable attributes or from differences in returns for otherwise equivalent characteristics. It applies a statistical decomposition methodology to data obtained from the 1992-2004 American National Election Studies. There is a consistent 10-point gender gap in measured political knowledge, of which approximately one-third is due to gender-based differences in the characteristics that predict political knowledge, with the remaining two-thirds due to male-female differences in the returns to these characteristics. The methodology identifies the relative contribution of the predictors of political knowledge to each portion of the gap, and then uses this information to elucidate the underlying sources of the political knowledge gender gap and its prognosis. Education is the characteristic that most clearly enlarges the gap, with men receiving significantly larger returns to political knowledge from education than women. Group membership reduces the gap as women obtain gains in political knowledge from belonging to organizations that do not accrue to men. However, these gains are not sufficient to significantly reduce the gap.

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Gender Differences in Political Knowledge: Distinguishing Characteristics-Based and Returns-Based Differences

Dow

2008

Polit Behav

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“…Hence, systematic and persistent patterns of unequal political interest, knowledge and participation along existing lines of stratification, such as gender, are threats to political equality, democratic performance and an egalitarian and fair society. Previous international research (for example, Coffé 2013b; Coffé and Bolzendahl 2010;Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996;Frazer and Macdonald 2003;Verba, Burns and Schlozman 1997) has shown that women generally tend to be significantly less likely to engage with, be interested in and be knowledgeable about politics. Comparing interest in politics in New Zealand back to 1963and up to 1990, Vowles (1993 found that while a gap remained in 1990, it had narrowed considerably since 1963.…”

Section: Gender Gaps In Political Interest and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

A Bark But No Bite: Inequality and the 2014 New Zealand General Election

Vowles¹,

Coffé²,

Curtin³

2017

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“…In addition, civil status can have a specific effect on women in the case of widowhood, which discouraged the participation of older women (Sciarini et al 2001). A low level of political sophistication can also provoke a censoring effect that is greater for women (Frazer and MacDonald 2003). In the second case, a differentiated effect can mobilise one of the two groups and have the opposite effect on the other group.…”

Section: Compositional and Conditional Effects Of Gendermentioning

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Gender Gap and Turnout in the 2003 Federal Elections

Engeli

Ballmer-Cao

Giugni

2006

Swiss Political Science Review

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We examine the gender gap in turnout in Switzerland by analysing the 2003 federal elections. Despite being a standard component in electoral studies, the gender variable is, in most cases, only used as a control variable and its effects and interaction are too often under-analysed. We focus on individual-level factors by looking at three types of explanations for the gender gap: (1) resources, (2) political motivations and attitudes, and (3) social capital and integration. Our analysis, based on binomial logistic regression models, shows that compositional and conditional effects play an important role in explaining the persistent gender gap in Swiss electoral turnout.

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Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain

Cited by 78 publications

References 6 publications

Gender Differences in Political Knowledge: Distinguishing Characteristics-Based and Returns-Based Differences

Gender Differences in Political Knowledge: Distinguishing Characteristics-Based and Returns-Based Differences

A Bark But No Bite: Inequality and the 2014 New Zealand General Election

Gender Gap and Turnout in the 2003 Federal Elections

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