Politicians and Preferences of the Voter Majority: Does Gender Matter?

David Stadelmann, Marco Portmann and Reiner Eichenberger ()

Economics and Politics, 2014, vol. 26, issue 3, 355-379

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Does the gender of political representatives affect the extent to which they adhere to the voter majority's preferences? By matching individual male and female representatives' votes on legislative proposals with real referendum outcomes on the same issues, we obtain a direct measure of divergence. We find that female and male representatives adhere equally close to the majority's preferences if party affiliations are taken into account. This suggests that observed gender differences with respect to the national majority of voters may be reduced to an ideological left–right dimension.

Date: 2014
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