A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
Gender and support for undemocratic politicians
Tekijät: Christensen, Henrik Serup; Hansen, Michael A.; Saikkonen, Inga
Kustantaja: Bristol University Press and Policy Press
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Journal: European Journal of Politics and Gender
ISSN: 2515-1088
eISSN: 2515-1096
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000043
Verkko-osoite: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/ejpg/aop/article-10.1332-25151088Y2024D000000043/article-10.1332-25151088Y2024D000000043.xml
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Several studies have examined whether attitudinal factors make people more willing to accept
political elites violating basic democratic norms. However, the role of more basic socio-
demographic characteristics, such as gender, remains underexplored. This may be a mistake,
as studies suggest that these influence the evaluation of democratic transgressions. We focus
on the role of gender in evaluations of democratic transgressions and re-examine data from
two conjoint experiments conducted in Finland. We examine whether the gender of the
politician violating democratic norms matters, whether the gender of the person judging the
democratic violations matters, and whether it matters for the evaluation of the democratic
violation when both the candidate and the respondent are of the same gender. Our results
indicate that gender plays at best a limited role, as we find no evidence that candidate gender
or the gender of the respondent matters for the evaluations.
Julkaisussa olevat rahoitustiedot:
Inga Saikkonen’s research was supported by Research Council Finland (grant number 316897).