Religion and the gender vote gap: women's changed political preferences from the 1970s to 2010

Abstract: "For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men (the ‘old’ gender vote gap), but since the 1980s this gap in many countries has shifted direction: now women in many countries are more likely to support left parties than men of the same age, in the same income bracket, and at the same educational level (the ‘new’ gender vote gap). The literature largely agrees on a set of political-economic factors explaining the change in women’s political orientation: changed employment patterns, women’s higher educational achievements, and higher divorce rates. These trends turned women into supporters of generous social programs that promise to ‘de-familialize’ services formerly provided privately within the family. In this paper, we demonstrate that these conventional political-economic factors fall short in explaining the old gender vote gap. We may therefore also harbor doubts whether they provide us with a full story for the new gender vote gap. Instead, we highlight the impo

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 43 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion

Erschienen in
ZeS-Arbeitspapier ; Bd. 1/2012

Klassifikation
Politik
Schlagwort
Europäische Union
Wahlverhalten
Geschlecht
Religion
:z Geschichte 1970-2010

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Bremen
(wann)
2012
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Sozialpolitik

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-366974
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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