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Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/811
Verlagslink DOI
10.1177/0032329213519419

Religion and the Gender Vote Gap: Women’s Changed Political Preferences from the 1970s to 2010

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2014-02-21
Autoren
Emmenegger, Patrick  
Manow, Philip  
Zusammenfassung
For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men, but since the 1980s this gap has shifted direction: women in many countries are more likely than men to support left parties. The literature largely agrees on a set of political- economic factors explaining the change in women’s political orientation. In this article we demonstrate that these conventional factors fall short in explaining the gender vote gap. We highlight the importance of a religious cleavage in the party system across Western European countries, restricting the free flow of religious voters between left and right parties. Given that surveys show us a constantly higher degree of religiosity among women and a persistent impact of religion on vote choice, religion explains a substantial part of the temporal as well as cross-country variation in the transition from the more conservative to the more progressive voting behavior of women.
Schlagwörter
Gender vote gap

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Religion

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Party system

; 

Cleavages

; 

Swing voters
Fachbereich
Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08)  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Politics & Society  
Band
42
Heft
2
Startseite
166
Endseite
193
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
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Sprache
Englisch
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