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Lena Wängnerud: Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions

Hovedinnhold

Lena Wängnerud, professor ved Göteborgs universitet, vil holde en presentasjon om: Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions

Presentasjonen bygger på en artikkel i samarbeid med Monika Bauhr og Nicholas Charron. 

While a growing body of research suggest that voters believe that increased women’s representation can change politics for the better, we know less about why this is so. Building on recent theoretical developments, we investigate the extent to which women’s perceived advantage in reducing corruption levels can be attributed to women being seen as risk averse, having an outsider status, or being specialized in the provision of welfare services. Leveraging the diverse socioeconomic conditions as well as varying levels of corruption and gender equality across 231 European regions, we use a unique conjoint experiment to show that voters see women candidates as more likely to reduce corruption than their male counterparts. However, we also show that the effect is primarily driven by women voters. In addition, we find that candidates depicted as risk averse or specialized in the provision of welfare services are preferred regardless of the candidates’ gender, while a candidates’ outsider status has no effect on the aggregate. We conclude that future research should pay greater attention to distinctions between gender stereotypes and more general anti-corruption stereotypes, possible to activate for both male and female politicians.

Lena Wängneruds forskning omhandler politikk og likestilling i vid forstand. Mer spesifikt forsker hun på politisk representasjon, korrupsjon og bekymringer for samfunnsutviklingen.

 

Arrangementet er en del av CORE Lecture Series, organisert av forskningsgruppen MOR ved Institutt for sammenliknende politikk. Ledende internasjonale forskere inviteres til å presentere sin pågående forskning om et bredt spekter av interessefeltet til forskningsgruppen - medborger, opinion, representasjon og valg.

CORE Lecture Series er finansiert av SAMEVAL-tildelingen fra Norges forskningsråd.

Arrangementet vil foregå fysisk på møterommet på Institutt for sammenliknende politikk og er åpent for alle interesserte.