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Title
(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1956/21958 |
Date
2019 |
Author(s)
Clayton, Amanda; Robinson, Amanda Lea; Johnson, Martha; Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise |
Abstract
How do voters evaluate women candidates in places where traditional gender norms are strong? We conduct a survey experiment in Malawi to assess both whether citizens discriminate against women candidates and how other salient candidate characteristics'political experience, family status, policy focus, and gendered kinship practices'interact with candidate gender to affect citizen support. Contrary to our expectations, we find citizens prefer women candidates ceteris paribus, and women and men with the same traits are evaluated similarly. Yet, we find two unexpected ways women candidates are disadvantaged in the electoral process. First, we find that citizens prefer candidates who are married with young children, a profile much more common among men than women candidates in practice. Second, we find pervasive qualitative reports of negative campaigning that likely affected citizens' evaluations of actual women candidates, while not affecting evaluations of hypothetical candidates. We discuss how our results speak to the ways gender biases operate in practice across political contexts. |
Language
eng |
Publisher
SAGE |
Relation
Comparative Political Studies |
Type of publication
Journal article; acceptedVersion; Journal article |
Source
0010-4140; 1552-3829 |
Rights
Copyright 2019 The Authors |
Identifier
Clayton A, Robinson AL, Johnson M, Muriaas RL. (How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi. Comparative Political Studies. 2020; 53(3-4): 601'630; 1717747; 10.1177/0010414019858960 |
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Bergen - University of Bergen
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