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Choosing Women in Postwar Elections: Exposure to War Violence, Ideology, and Voters’ Gender Bias
GLAURDIC, Josip; Lesschaeve, Christophe
2023In Politics and Gender, 19 (3), p. 841–866
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Keywords :
postwar elections; voter choice; gender bias
Abstract :
[en] The level of women’s parliamentary representation often increases after armed conflict, but do voters in postwar societies actually prefer female electoral candidates? We answer this question by analyzing a unique data set containing information on nearly 7,000 candidates running in three elections with preferential voting in postwar Croatia. Our analysis demonstrates that voters’ gender bias is conditional on the local electorate’s ideology and exposure to war violence, with voters of right-wing parties and voters in areas more affected by war violence being more biased against female candidates. These effects of ideology and exposure to war violence also exhibit a strong interactive relationship, suggesting that bias against women is strongest among right-wing voters in areas exposed to war violence and reversed among left-wing voters in areas exposed to war violence. Our findings highlight the need to better understand the relationship between gender, ideology, and violence in postconflict societies.
Disciplines :
Political science, public administration & international relations
Author, co-author :
GLAURDIC, Josip  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC)
Lesschaeve, Christophe;  University of Antwerp > Department of Political Science
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Choosing Women in Postwar Elections: Exposure to War Violence, Ideology, and Voters’ Gender Bias
Publication date :
10 February 2023
Journal title :
Politics and Gender
ISSN :
1743-923X
eISSN :
1743-9248
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
Volume :
19
Issue :
3
Pages :
841–866
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
European Projects :
H2020 - 714589 - ELWar - Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe
Funders :
CE - Commission Européenne
Union Européenne
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