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Institutional and contextual factors accounting for the gender gap in gender-based voting in the Finnish parliamentary elections
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Giger, Nathalie |
| Abstract | Theories of descriptive representation suggest that each politically relevant group should be represented according to its relative proportion in the electorate. In the Finnish open-list PR system with mandatory preferential voting, voters have a straightforward opportunity to choose candidate on the basis of his/her personal characteristics such as gender. Gender-based voting (i.e. same-sex voting) refers to situation in which a voter supports a candidate of one’s own gender. Whereas the previous study (Holli & Wass 2010) have revealed some socio-economic and motivational factors related to gender-based voting in Finland at the micro level, men’s higher propensity for same-gender voting has not yet been accounted for. Based on pooled cross-sectional data from parliamentary elections 1979, 1991, 2003 and 2007 (n=5,286), we examine the extent to which the gender-gap in gender-based voting is connected to contextual constraints, i.e. district magnitude, gender ratios in candidates and MPs and electoral competition. Our findings show that, except for competition, the gender differences in the selection of same-gender candidates are substantially reduced once such contextual factors are taken into account. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ecpr.eu/filestore/paperproposal/0702d5ff-e142-4b55-bdb0-2042a01f52fd.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
