Who Is Responsible for the Gender Gap? The Dynamics of Men’s and Women’s Democratic Macropartisanship, 1950–2012
Who Is Responsible for the Gender Gap? The Dynamics of Men’s and Women’s Democratic Macropartisanship, 1950–2012
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谁应对性别差距负责？1950-2012 年男性和女性民主大党派的动态
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2017
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Heather L. Ondercin
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作者：
Heather L. Ondercin
我认为，性别差距是男性和女性改变党派倾向的结果，因为他们从政党那里寻求最好地代表自己的性别社会认同。具体地说，由于政党重组而导致的政党变化以及政党国会代表团组成的变化，为个人提供了一个更明确的信号，可以作为他们对党派依恋的基础。在过去的70年里，男性和女性对这些信号做出了不同的反应，形成了不同的政治身份，导致了党派斗争中的性别差距。为了验证这一理论，我构建了一个创新的宏观层面的数据集，记录了1950至2012年间每季度男性和女性的党派依恋。我使用一个看似不相关的回归框架来估计男性和女性的民主党大党派模式，以及特定因素是否通过对男性和女性的党派倾向产生不同的影响而导致性别差距。结果与我的理论预期一致，突出了象征性图像如何塑造党派依恋，并证明了性别差距是男性和女性大党派意识变化的函数。
I argue the gender gap is a function of men and women changing their partisanship as they seek the best representation of their gendered social identity from the political parties. Specifically, shifts in the parties due to party realignments and shifts in the composition of parties’ congressional delegations have provided individuals with a clearer signal on which to base their partisan attachments. Men and women have responded differently to these signals and developed different political identities over the past seventy years, resulting in the gender gap in partisanship. To test this theory, I have constructed an innovative macro-level dataset of men’s and women’s partisan attachments on a quarterly basis between 1950 and 2012. I use a Seemingly Unrelated Regression framework to estimate patterns of men’s and women’s Democratic macropartisanship and whether particular factors contribute to the gender gap by having different effects on men’s and women’s partisanship. The results are consistent with my theoretical expectations, highlighting how symbolic images shape partisan attachments, and demonstrate the gender gap is a function of changes in both men’s and women’s macropartisanship.