How and Why Women and Men Vote Differently on the Transnational Cleavage

• In Event: Advances in the Study of Gender and Politics

Abstract

This paper seeks to explain how the difference in voting between men and women arises in a person’s life-course. Our premise is that the contemporary gender gap is directly linked to the transformation of party systems following the information revolution, and in particular, the rise of education in sorting voters on the transnational cleavage. The paper uses several sources of cross-sectional and panel data to test its claims. We find that the educational choices a person makes are highly gendered and are a key factor mediating the effect of gender on voting.

Authors

• Gary Marks, UNC - Chapel Hill

• Liesbet Hooghe, UNC - Chapel Hill

• Jonne Kamphorst, European University Institute