Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation
The matter of a gender gap in electoral participation is a fact in many parts of the world but has mostly been investigated by, and studied within, the Global North. In spite of this, scholars have not reached an undisputed conclusion for why this is. Scholars have argued for the importance of study...
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ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-uu-4027572020-01-21T03:36:55ZVoting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral ParticipationengDirke Lundberg, ToraUppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen2019women's electoral participationelectoral systemsgender gapGlobalisation StudiesGlobaliseringsstudierThe matter of a gender gap in electoral participation is a fact in many parts of the world but has mostly been investigated by, and studied within, the Global North. In spite of this, scholars have not reached an undisputed conclusion for why this is. Scholars have argued for the importance of studying the institutions and systems composing voting in order to explain electoral participation, especially since the form and degree of direct influence of voters are differing within different electoral systems. Relying on the rational voter hypothesis in combination with feminist theory this thesis suggests that women have different experiences of civic duty and influence, and therefore participate in elections to a lesser extent than men. The main results suggest that presidentialism, to an extent which is neither statistically nor practically significant, decrease women’s electoral participation while majoritarian electoral rules seem to have an even smaller, but similar, effect. Testing electoral systems’ effect on the gender gap, statistically significant results points to the fact that presidentialism increases the gender gap in electoral participation. Majoritarian electoral rules do too increase the gender gap, but to a more restricted extent. This thesis concludes that electoral systems do have a gendered effect on electoral participation and that these effects need to be further investigated by future research. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402757application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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The matter of a gender gap in electoral participation is a fact in many parts of the world but has mostly been investigated by, and studied within, the Global North. In spite of this, scholars have not reached an undisputed conclusion for why this is. Scholars have argued for the importance of studying the institutions and systems composing voting in order to explain electoral participation, especially since the form and degree of direct influence of voters are differing within different electoral systems. Relying on the rational voter hypothesis in combination with feminist theory this thesis suggests that women have different experiences of civic duty and influence, and therefore participate in elections to a lesser extent than men. The main results suggest that presidentialism, to an extent which is neither statistically nor practically significant, decrease women’s electoral participation while majoritarian electoral rules seem to have an even smaller, but similar, effect. Testing electoral systems’ effect on the gender gap, statistically significant results points to the fact that presidentialism increases the gender gap in electoral participation. Majoritarian electoral rules do too increase the gender gap, but to a more restricted extent. This thesis concludes that electoral systems do have a gendered effect on electoral participation and that these effects need to be further investigated by future research. |
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Dirke Lundberg, Tora |
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Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation |
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Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation |
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Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation |
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Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation |
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Voting Women? : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Electoral Participation |
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voting women? : a quantitative analysis of the effects of electoral systems on women's electoral participation |
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Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
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