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Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990-2014

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorFernández González, Juan Jesús
dc.contributor.authorMayrl, Damon Walter
dc.contributor.authorValiente Fernández, Celia
dc.contributor.authorJaime-Castillo, Antonio M.
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)es
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-19T16:30:16Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T00:00:05Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-01
dc.description.abstractThis manuscript examines the structural causes of the gender gap in political interest. In many countries, men are more interested in politics than women. Yet, in others, men and women prove equally interested. We explain this cross-national variation by focusing on the effects of societal religiosity. Since religion sustains the traditional gender order, contexts where societal religiosity is low undermine the taken-for-grantedness of this order, subjecting it to debate. Men then become especially interested in politics to try to reassert their traditional gender dominance, or to compensate for their increasingly uncertain social status. A secular environment thus increases political interest more among men than among women, expanding this gender gap. Using the World and European Values Survey, we estimate three-level regression models and test our religiosity-based approach in 96 countries. The results are consistent with our hypothesis.en
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación. Grant Number: RTI2018-098781-B-I00 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Grant Number: CSO2015-70297-Res
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationFernández, J. J., Jaime‐Castillo, A. M., Mayrl, D., & Valiente, C. (2020). Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990–2014. The British Journal of Sociology, 72 (2), pp. 252-269.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12789
dc.identifier.issn0007-1315
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage252es
dc.identifier.publicationissue2es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage269es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleBRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGYen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume72es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34858
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000028353
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-098781-B-I00es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. CSO2015-70297-Res
dc.rights© 2020 London School of Economics and Political Scienceen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.subject.ecienciaPolíticaes
dc.subject.ecienciaReligiónes
dc.subject.ecienciaSociologíaes
dc.subject.otherGenderen
dc.subject.otherPolitical interesten
dc.subject.otherQuantitative analysisen
dc.subject.otherReligionen
dc.subject.otherSocial valuesen
dc.titleSocietal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990-2014en
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