Catherine Bolzendahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 186578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Bolzendahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolzendahl |
| SIGNATURE | BOLZENDAHL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6536-7741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 989 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Is there a ‘woman advantage’? Gendered perceptions of candidate nominations in Finland
Amid debates about the strategic benefits of nominating women, we investigate perceptions of a ‘woman advantage’ among successfully nominated candidates in Finland. We propose two competing mechanisms: one suggests men perceive a ‘woman advantage’ due to the rising representation of women in politics; and the other argues women are more likely to perceive such an advantage based on direct recruitment experiences. Drawing on the 2019 Finnish Compa…
How important are family issues politically? Public opinion in the context of economic and cultural political cleavages
How politically important are family issues to voters overall and in the context of economic and cultural political opinion cleavages? We use data from the 2014 New Zealand Election Study to answer these questions. More than 60% of respondents claim that family issues–generally defined–were ‘somewhat’ or ‘very important’ when deciding whom to vote for in the 2014 elections, suggesting that family issues are viewed as politically significant. Many…
Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics
This study offers a multidimensional analysis of individuals’ self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics to better understand variation from more to less binary gender identities. Through gender’s co-constitution along with various social localities, we expect that a number of socio-political factors differentiate individuals’ gender identities through self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics. Using d…
Beyond the binary: New approaches to measuring gender in political science research
Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion
Although the concept of homonationalism is still relatively new, it has already undergone substantial reformulation from its original conception. Moreover, the concept has been the subject of substantial debate. Originally formulated by Jasbir Puar specifically in a US context, the concept sought to capture the reciprocal relationship between LGBTQ + movements/identities and nationalism/imperialism. The concept has since expanded in scope both ge…
Teaching and learning guide for: Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)formulation, application, and debates of expansion
Degrees of Support: State Spending on Higher Education and Public Postsecondary Degrees across State Legislatures, 2005 and 2014
U.S. state spending on higher education represents a sizable, but highly variable, portion of budget expenditures. Preliminary research supports a positive relationship between the percentage of state legislators who hold public degrees and state funding for higher education. In this study, the authors test whether this finding is consistent over time by using panel modeling to analyze the educational compositions of state legislatures in 2005 an…
Are all politics masculine? Gender socialised personality traits and diversity in political engagement
Most research studying gender and political participation fails to problematise the measure of gender identity. Using 2012/13 Dutch Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences panel survey data, we investigate how gender-socialised personality traits relate to various types of political engagement. Baseline models show that, when significant, self-assessed socialised agentic/masculine traits are positively, and communal/feminine traits …
Are all politics masculine? Gender socialised personality traits and diversity in political engagement
Agree to Disagree? Ideological Cleavages in Paid Parental Leave and Abortion Rights Support
The lack of US paid parental leave policies has increasingly gained public and political attention. Yet it is unclear whether public support for such a policy will translate to enactment. To better understand support for leave, we compare it to another major gender policy issue: abortion rights. Using a unique question from the 2012 General Social Survey, our logistic models show that: (a) respondents who support more liberal abortion policy are …
Public Support for Increasing Women and Minority MPs
Most democracies fail to provide equal representation and tend to have an overrepresentation of men from the upper class and the majority racial or ethnic group. We investigate public support for increasing the number of women and indigenous Māori members of parliament (MPs) in the New Zealand Parliament, both in general and through specific mechanisms such as quotas and reserved seats. We offer three explanations: descriptive (group identity), s…
Parties, issues, and power: Women’s partisan representation on German parliamentary committees
This study examines the representation of women Members of Parliament on parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag since 1990. In line with theories on the social construction of gender, our descriptive analyses show that women Members of Parliament tend to be over-represented on committees handling issues such as health and family, and under-represented on committees handling issues such as foreign and legal affairs and defence. However, …
Acceptance and Rejection: Patterns of Opinion on Homosexuality in the United States and the World
Religion and Democratic Citizenship: A Multilevel Examination
We conduct a multilevel examination of the relationship between religiosity and democratic citizenship norms and behaviors using International Social Survey Program data. We analyze how democratic engagement varies according to individual and national average religious involvement in 28 predominantly-Christian democracies. We find that (1) individual-level religious attendance is positively linked to both what people say (norms) and what they do …
Rejecting the West? Homonegative attitudes and political orientations in contemporary Eastern Europe
Homonegative attitudes are strikingly high in Eastern Europe, and a schism among an enlarged Europe. To understand this, we examine the comparative and over-time role of individual political orientations. Using the World Values Survey, we investigate how these relate to homonegativity over time (1995–2014) in eight Eastern European nations, compared to a sample of seven Western nations. Individuals in all nations who hold nationalist and authorit…
Defining Women's Global Political Empowerment: Theories and Evidence
Although women's access to political power has increased tremendously, nowhere are women equal to men in their influence over and exercise of political authority. Scholarship on women's political empowerment is uneven and incomplete. This article interrogates ‘women's political empowerment’, considering its definition, measurement, and application. First, we establish that academics and practitioners have not articulated a clear definition of wom…
Avoiding the subject? Gender gaps in interpersonal political conflict avoidance and its consequences for political engagement
Racial and Ethnic Homogamy and Gendered Time on Core Housework
Racial/ethnic partner homogamy may contribute to gendered patterns in time on housework. To evaluate this, we pool 10 years of data from the American Time Use Survey and examine how time spent on housework varies by racial/ethnic homogamy across racial/ethnic groups and by gender. Interracial partnerships are more gender equitable, due to women spending less time on housework than women in homogamous relationships. Patterns vary by race/ethnicity…
Rhetoric and Reality: The Role of Family Issues in Politician and Party Support
Despite evidence of the political salience of family issues, little work has been done to understand how Americans link family issues to their support of various parties and politicians. This study examines whether respondents think party/politician views on family issues are important and asks respondents to provide examples of relevant family issues. Using data from the 2003 Constructing the Family telephone survey conducted at the Indiana Univ…
Opportunities and Expectations: The Gendered Organization of Legislative Committees in Germany, Sweden, and the United States
As men and women increasingly share access to state power, there has been a question of whether women's rising descriptive representation leads to substantive change, and a sizable body of literature suggests it does. As a mechanism for this effect, I theorize legislatures as gendered organizations that build gender into their institutional operation, as enmeshed in legislative committee systems. Using case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the Uni…
Racial group differences in support for citizenship duties and rights in the US: Racial differences citizenship duties and rights
Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25 Nations
Whereas research on political participation typically investigates a variety of socio-economic and attitudinal characteristics, this cross-national study focuses on the relevance of norms when explaining political participation. We examine respondents' normative beliefs about the importance of various measures of ‘good citizenship’, and their relationship to three modes of political engagement (activism, party membership and voting). We find assi…
Civil Society and Diversity
In the past two decades, “civil society” has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed…
Returns to Education: Exploring the Link Between Legislators' Public School Degrees and State Spending on Higher Education
The United States leads the world in public higher education, with a substantial amount of funding coming from state, rather than federal, government sources. Perhaps not surprisingly, the amount states contribute varies widely, leading researchers to explore the sources of such variation. While numerous factors have been shown to matter, the potential relevance of political representation remains unclear. To address this gap, the relationship be…
Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality: Opinion Change in Women and Men, 1974-1998
This article examines attitudes related to feminism and gender equality by evaluating the trends in, and determinants of, women and men's attitudes from 1974 to 1998. Past accounts suggest two clusters of explanations based on interests and exposure. Using these, we examine opinions on abortion, sexual behavior, public sphere gender roles, and family responsibilities. We find that attitudes have continued to liberalize and converge with the excep…
Same Game, Different Rules? Gender Differences in Political Participation
We investigate gender gaps in political participation with 2004 ISSP data for 18 advanced Western democracies (N: 20,359) using linear and logistic regression models. Controlling for socio-economic characteristics and political attitudes reveals that women are more likely than men to have voted and engaged in 'private' activism, while men are more likely to have engaged in direct contact, collective types of actions and be (more active) members o…
The transformation of US gender role attitudes: Cohort Replacement, Social-Structural Change, and Ideological Learning
Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25 Nations
Whereas research on political participation typically investigates a variety of socio-economic and attitudinal characteristics, this cross-national study focuses on the relevance of norms when explaining political participation. We examine respondents' normative beliefs about the importance of various measures of ‘good citizenship’, and their relationship to three modes of political engagement (activism, party membership and voting). We find assi…
Women's Political Representation and Welfare State Spending in 12 Capitalist Democracies
One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address welfare state effects on gender-related outcomes, but the evaluation of theories of welfare development with respect to gender factors is somewhat less developed, leaving open a number of important questions regarding gender as a mechanism behind welfare state developm…
Gender Gaps in Political Participation Across Sub-Saharan African Nations
A substantial literature has studied gender differences in political participation in Western industrialized democracies, but little is known about such gaps in sub-Saharan African nations. Using 2005 Afrobarometer data, this paper presents a systematic investigation of the gender gap in political participation across 18 sub-Saharan African countries. In line with cultural isomorphism, patterns in gender gaps across different types of participati…
Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in Twelve Industrialized Democracies, 1980-99
Journal Article Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in Twelve Industrialized Democracies, 1980–99 Get access Catherine Bolzendahl Catherine Bolzendahl Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 40–81, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxp002 Published: 11 February 2…
Beyond the Big Picture: Gender Influences on Disaggregated and Domain-Specific Measures of Social Spending, 1980–1999
Three issues are central to, but underdeveloped in, theoretical debates about the welfare state. First, the array of welfare services is of equal, or greater, importance than welfare transfers; second, spending varies across substantively different domains; and third, the welfare state is profoundly shaped by gender. While a comprehensive body of research has provided many claims and critiques on these points, their potential for empirical examin…
Opportunities and Expectations: The Gendered Organization of Legislative Committees in Germany, Sweden, and the United States
As men and women increasingly share access to state power, there has been a question of whether women's rising descriptive representation leads to substantive change, and a sizable body of literature suggests it does. As a mechanism for this effect, I theorize legislatures as gendered organizations that build gender into their institutional operation, as enmeshed in legislative committee systems. Using case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the Uni…
Defining Women's Global Political Empowerment: Theories and Evidence
Although women's access to political power has increased tremendously, nowhere are women equal to men in their influence over and exercise of political authority. Scholarship on women's political empowerment is uneven and incomplete. This article interrogates ‘women's political empowerment’, considering its definition, measurement, and application. First, we establish that academics and practitioners have not articulated a clear definition of wom…
Racial and Ethnic Homogamy and Gendered Time on Core Housework
Racial/ethnic partner homogamy may contribute to gendered patterns in time on housework. To evaluate this, we pool 10 years of data from the American Time Use Survey and examine how time spent on housework varies by racial/ethnic homogamy across racial/ethnic groups and by gender. Interracial partnerships are more gender equitable, due to women spending less time on housework than women in homogamous relationships. Patterns vary by race/ethnicity…
Citizenship beyond politics: The Importance of Political, Civil and Social Rights and Responsibilities Among Women and Men1
Previous research has suggested that men are more engaged as citizens than are women. Yet, little is known about gender cleavages across a variety of citizenship norms. To what extent do men and women define citizenship differently? To address that question, this study examines the importance men and women assign various citizenship rights and responsibilities using 2004 ISSP data from 18 Western, industrialized nations. Using a disaggregated app…
Public Support for Increasing Women and Minority MPs
Most democracies fail to provide equal representation and tend to have an overrepresentation of men from the upper class and the majority racial or ethnic group. We investigate public support for increasing the number of women and indigenous Māori members of parliament (MPs) in the New Zealand Parliament, both in general and through specific mechanisms such as quotas and reserved seats. We offer three explanations: descriptive (group identity), s…
Avoiding the subject? Gender gaps in interpersonal political conflict avoidance and its consequences for political engagement
Gender Group Interest or Gender Ideology? Understanding U.S. Support for Family Policy within the Liberal Welfare Regime
Many market-centered democracies have more comprehensive and generous family policies than the United States. While there is an assumed lack of public support for such policies, little research exists on Americans' family policy attitudes, especially in a comparative perspective. The authors examine the United States within the liberal welfare state framework, comparing it to nations with the greatest institutional, historical, and cultural simil…
Parties, issues, and power: Women’s partisan representation on German parliamentary committees
This study examines the representation of women Members of Parliament on parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag since 1990. In line with theories on the social construction of gender, our descriptive analyses show that women Members of Parliament tend to be over-represented on committees handling issues such as health and family, and under-represented on committees handling issues such as foreign and legal affairs and defence. However, …
Are all politics masculine? Gender socialised personality traits and diversity in political engagement
Most research studying gender and political participation fails to problematise the measure of gender identity. Using 2012/13 Dutch Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences panel survey data, we investigate how gender-socialised personality traits relate to various types of political engagement. Baseline models show that, when significant, self-assessed socialised agentic/masculine traits are positively, and communal/feminine traits …
Rejecting the West? Homonegative attitudes and political orientations in contemporary Eastern Europe
Homonegative attitudes are strikingly high in Eastern Europe, and a schism among an enlarged Europe. To understand this, we examine the comparative and over-time role of individual political orientations. Using the World Values Survey, we investigate how these relate to homonegativity over time (1995–2014) in eight Eastern European nations, compared to a sample of seven Western nations. Individuals in all nations who hold nationalist and authorit…
Partisan Cleavages in the Importance of Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Objective. Research indicates partisan polarization on a number of social and moral attitudes. However, it is unclear whether a similar polarization can be found regarding citizenship norms, a question we investigate. Methods. Using 2004 GSS data, we examine regression results analyzing citizens' beliefs about a wide range of citizenship duties and rights based on their partisan identity. Results. Democrats and Republicans differ little in regard…
Religion and Democratic Citizenship: A Multilevel Examination
We conduct a multilevel examination of the relationship between religiosity and democratic citizenship norms and behaviors using International Social Survey Program data. We analyze how democratic engagement varies according to individual and national average religious involvement in 28 predominantly-Christian democracies. We find that (1) individual-level religious attendance is positively linked to both what people say (norms) and what they do …
Directions of Decommodification: Gender and Generosity in 12 OECD Nations, 1980-2000
Although the decommodifying capacity of states (effort to provide a standard of living independent of the market) has been a key focus of welfare state research, its relevance for gender has been less clear. Given large scale changes in gender relations with growing economic, political, and familial equality I suggest the need to reevaluate decommodification from the perspective of gender. Results from descriptive and regression analyses reveal t…
Beyond the binary: New approaches to measuring gender in political science research
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion
Although the concept of homonationalism is still relatively new, it has already undergone substantial reformulation from its original conception. Moreover, the concept has been the subject of substantial debate. Originally formulated by Jasbir Puar specifically in a US context, the concept sought to capture the reciprocal relationship between LGBTQ + movements/identities and nationalism/imperialism. The concept has since expanded in scope both ge…
Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics
This study offers a multidimensional analysis of individuals’ self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics to better understand variation from more to less binary gender identities. Through gender’s co-constitution along with various social localities, we expect that a number of socio-political factors differentiate individuals’ gender identities through self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics. Using d…
Degrees of Support: State Spending on Higher Education and Public Postsecondary Degrees across State Legislatures, 2005 and 2014
U.S. state spending on higher education represents a sizable, but highly variable, portion of budget expenditures. Preliminary research supports a positive relationship between the percentage of state legislators who hold public degrees and state funding for higher education. In this study, the authors test whether this finding is consistent over time by using panel modeling to analyze the educational compositions of state legislatures in 2005 an…
Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality: Opinion Change in Women and Men, 1974-1998
This article examines attitudes related to feminism and gender equality by evaluating the trends in, and determinants of, women and men's attitudes from 1974 to 1998. Past accounts suggest two clusters of explanations based on interests and exposure. Using these, we examine opinions on abortion, sexual behavior, public sphere gender roles, and family responsibilities. We find that attitudes have continued to liberalize and converge with the excep…
The transformation of US gender role attitudes: Cohort Replacement, Social-Structural Change, and Ideological Learning
Polarization, Secularization, or Differences as Usual? The Denominational Cleavage in U.S. Social Attitudes Since the 1970s
Scholarly debates over modernization and social change in the late twentieth century have raised far-reaching questions about the possible consequences for religious group conflict and differences in behavior, identity, and opinion. Three general theoretical interpretations—polarization, secularization, and stable influence—have been asserted in the relevant literatures, yet which interpretation might best capture the effects of religious group m…
Women's Political Representation and Welfare State Spending in 12 Capitalist Democracies
One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address welfare state effects on gender-related outcomes, but the evaluation of theories of welfare development with respect to gender factors is somewhat less developed, leaving open a number of important questions regarding gender as a mechanism behind welfare state developm…
Gender Group Interest or Gender Ideology? Understanding U.S. Support for Family Policy within the Liberal Welfare Regime
Many market-centered democracies have more comprehensive and generous family policies than the United States. While there is an assumed lack of public support for such policies, little research exists on Americans' family policy attitudes, especially in a comparative perspective. The authors examine the United States within the liberal welfare state framework, comparing it to nations with the greatest institutional, historical, and cultural simil…
Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in Twelve Industrialized Democracies, 1980-99
Journal Article Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in Twelve Industrialized Democracies, 1980–99 Get access Catherine Bolzendahl Catherine Bolzendahl Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 40–81, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxp002 Published: 11 February 2…
Citizenship beyond politics: The Importance of Political, Civil and Social Rights and Responsibilities Among Women and Men1
Previous research has suggested that men are more engaged as citizens than are women. Yet, little is known about gender cleavages across a variety of citizenship norms. To what extent do men and women define citizenship differently? To address that question, this study examines the importance men and women assign various citizenship rights and responsibilities using 2004 ISSP data from 18 Western, industrialized nations. Using a disaggregated app…
Same Game, Different Rules? Gender Differences in Political Participation
We investigate gender gaps in political participation with 2004 ISSP data for 18 advanced Western democracies (N: 20,359) using linear and logistic regression models. Controlling for socio-economic characteristics and political attitudes reveals that women are more likely than men to have voted and engaged in 'private' activism, while men are more likely to have engaged in direct contact, collective types of actions and be (more active) members o…
Directions of Decommodification: Gender and Generosity in 12 OECD Nations, 1980-2000
Although the decommodifying capacity of states (effort to provide a standard of living independent of the market) has been a key focus of welfare state research, its relevance for gender has been less clear. Given large scale changes in gender relations with growing economic, political, and familial equality I suggest the need to reevaluate decommodification from the perspective of gender. Results from descriptive and regression analyses reveal t…
Partisan Cleavages in the Importance of Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Objective. Research indicates partisan polarization on a number of social and moral attitudes. However, it is unclear whether a similar polarization can be found regarding citizenship norms, a question we investigate. Methods. Using 2004 GSS data, we examine regression results analyzing citizens' beliefs about a wide range of citizenship duties and rights based on their partisan identity. Results. Democrats and Republicans differ little in regard…
Beyond the Big Picture: Gender Influences on Disaggregated and Domain-Specific Measures of Social Spending, 1980–1999
Three issues are central to, but underdeveloped in, theoretical debates about the welfare state. First, the array of welfare services is of equal, or greater, importance than welfare transfers; second, spending varies across substantively different domains; and third, the welfare state is profoundly shaped by gender. While a comprehensive body of research has provided many claims and critiques on these points, their potential for empirical examin…
Gender Gaps in Political Participation Across Sub-Saharan African Nations
A substantial literature has studied gender differences in political participation in Western industrialized democracies, but little is known about such gaps in sub-Saharan African nations. Using 2005 Afrobarometer data, this paper presents a systematic investigation of the gender gap in political participation across 18 sub-Saharan African countries. In line with cultural isomorphism, patterns in gender gaps across different types of participati…
Civil Society and Diversity
In the past two decades, “civil society” has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed…
Returns to Education: Exploring the Link Between Legislators' Public School Degrees and State Spending on Higher Education
The United States leads the world in public higher education, with a substantial amount of funding coming from state, rather than federal, government sources. Perhaps not surprisingly, the amount states contribute varies widely, leading researchers to explore the sources of such variation. While numerous factors have been shown to matter, the potential relevance of political representation remains unclear. To address this gap, the relationship be…
Racial group differences in support for citizenship duties and rights in the US: Racial differences citizenship duties and rights
Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25 Nations
Whereas research on political participation typically investigates a variety of socio-economic and attitudinal characteristics, this cross-national study focuses on the relevance of norms when explaining political participation. We examine respondents' normative beliefs about the importance of various measures of ‘good citizenship’, and their relationship to three modes of political engagement (activism, party membership and voting). We find assi…
Opportunities and Expectations: The Gendered Organization of Legislative Committees in Germany, Sweden, and the United States
As men and women increasingly share access to state power, there has been a question of whether women's rising descriptive representation leads to substantive change, and a sizable body of literature suggests it does. As a mechanism for this effect, I theorize legislatures as gendered organizations that build gender into their institutional operation, as enmeshed in legislative committee systems. Using case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the Uni…
Rhetoric and Reality: The Role of Family Issues in Politician and Party Support
Despite evidence of the political salience of family issues, little work has been done to understand how Americans link family issues to their support of various parties and politicians. This study examines whether respondents think party/politician views on family issues are important and asks respondents to provide examples of relevant family issues. Using data from the 2003 Constructing the Family telephone survey conducted at the Indiana Univ…
Defining Women's Global Political Empowerment: Theories and Evidence
Although women's access to political power has increased tremendously, nowhere are women equal to men in their influence over and exercise of political authority. Scholarship on women's political empowerment is uneven and incomplete. This article interrogates ‘women's political empowerment’, considering its definition, measurement, and application. First, we establish that academics and practitioners have not articulated a clear definition of wom…
Avoiding the subject? Gender gaps in interpersonal political conflict avoidance and its consequences for political engagement
Racial and Ethnic Homogamy and Gendered Time on Core Housework
Racial/ethnic partner homogamy may contribute to gendered patterns in time on housework. To evaluate this, we pool 10 years of data from the American Time Use Survey and examine how time spent on housework varies by racial/ethnic homogamy across racial/ethnic groups and by gender. Interracial partnerships are more gender equitable, due to women spending less time on housework than women in homogamous relationships. Patterns vary by race/ethnicity…
Rejecting the West? Homonegative attitudes and political orientations in contemporary Eastern Europe
Homonegative attitudes are strikingly high in Eastern Europe, and a schism among an enlarged Europe. To understand this, we examine the comparative and over-time role of individual political orientations. Using the World Values Survey, we investigate how these relate to homonegativity over time (1995–2014) in eight Eastern European nations, compared to a sample of seven Western nations. Individuals in all nations who hold nationalist and authorit…
Parties, issues, and power: Women’s partisan representation on German parliamentary committees
This study examines the representation of women Members of Parliament on parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag since 1990. In line with theories on the social construction of gender, our descriptive analyses show that women Members of Parliament tend to be over-represented on committees handling issues such as health and family, and under-represented on committees handling issues such as foreign and legal affairs and defence. However, …
Acceptance and Rejection: Patterns of Opinion on Homosexuality in the United States and the World
Religion and Democratic Citizenship: A Multilevel Examination
We conduct a multilevel examination of the relationship between religiosity and democratic citizenship norms and behaviors using International Social Survey Program data. We analyze how democratic engagement varies according to individual and national average religious involvement in 28 predominantly-Christian democracies. We find that (1) individual-level religious attendance is positively linked to both what people say (norms) and what they do …
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