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Voting Women, Protesting Men: a Multilevel Analysis of Corruption, Gender, and Political Participation
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Abstract Previous studies have been unable to establish the link between corruption perceptions and political participation. This is partly due to a disregard of different types of political participation, ignoring gender differences in how corruption perceptions affect political participation, and overlooki... view more
Previous studies have been unable to establish the link between corruption perceptions and political participation. This is partly due to a disregard of different types of political participation, ignoring gender differences in how corruption perceptions affect political participation, and overlooking the importance of context. We therefore here examine gender differences in the links between corruption perceptions and three types of political participation: voting, institutionalized participation between elections, and noninstitutionalized participation between elections. We also examine how the context in the form of the national level of corruption affects these linkages. The data come from International Social Survey Program Citizenship II and includes 31 democracies, analyzed with multilevel regression models. Our results show that women become more likely to vote when faced with corruption, whereas men become more likely to engage in elite-challenging forms of participation when faced with corruption while women remain unaffected.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; political participation; woman; man; gender role; corruption; voting behavior; comparative political science; election; electoral system; electoral law; protest
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
corruption perceptions; moderation; institutionalized participation; noninstitutionalized participation; International Social Survey Programme: Citizenship II - ISSP 2014 (ZA6670 v2.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 126-161
Journal
Politics & Policy, 49 (2021) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12393
ISSN
1747-1346
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed