CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Kajan, Mário |
|---|---|
| Title | Is the Gender Gap in Political Participation Closing? Comparison of Western and Central and Eastern Europe |
| Summary | The gender gap in political participation is studied in the social sciences for a long time. Contemporary studies show that this gap is closing among all modes of political participation. However, the subject of these studies is usually the United States or Western European countries with few of them focusing on Central and Eastern European countries. Theories indicate that the latter group of countries may show different results because of their different development. Therefore, this paper uses data from the European Social Survey to find out if the gender gap is closing in the Western European countries across all of the modes of political participation. The same data is subsequently used to analyze Central and Eastern European countries. Additionally, logistic regression with clustered standard errors is used to see if which of the predictors from previous research are relevant to explain the gender gap. The results show that the gender gap in political participation is small but still present within the Western European countries across most of the modes of political participation. On the other hand, in Central and Eastern European countries, this gap is closed across most of the modes of political participation. Concerning the predictors, the individual-level predictors seem to explain the gender gap more compared to country-level ones which do not seem to affect the gender gap in political participation. |
| Supervisor | Tóka, Gábor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/kajan_mario.pdf |
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