The Gender Gap in Radical Right Voting: Explaining differences in the Netherlands
Men and women differ in their level of radical right votes in most European countries. This research, a cross sectional survey study amoung 1125 Dutch respondents, examines both structural and attitudinal explanations for a difference between male and female voting patterns in the Netherlands. The differences in structural backgrounds, being self-employed, and the importance one attaches to its religion all appear to be factors that close the gender gap in radical right voting. Attitudinal explanations seemed to explain a large part of the variance in voting behavior for both sexes. Comparativ... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
| Schlagwörter: | Sociale Wetenschappen / gender gap / radical right voting / structural and situational explanations / attitudinal explanations |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29200868 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
| Powered By: | BASE |
| Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/245781 |
Men and women differ in their level of radical right votes in most European countries. This research, a cross sectional survey study amoung 1125 Dutch respondents, examines both structural and attitudinal explanations for a difference between male and female voting patterns in the Netherlands. The differences in structural backgrounds, being self-employed, and the importance one attaches to its religion all appear to be factors that close the gender gap in radical right voting. Attitudinal explanations seemed to explain a large part of the variance in voting behavior for both sexes. Comparative analyses showed that the effect of both structural and attitudinal explanations had a higher explanatory power for males than they have for females.