Confident and cautious candidates: Explaining under-representation of women in Danish municipal politics *Working paper*
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Confident and cautious candidates : Explaining under-representation of women in Danish municipal politics *Working paper*. / Dahl, Malte ; Nyrup, Jacob.
Copenhagen University, 2018. p. 1-46.Research output: Working paper › Research
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T1 - Confident and cautious candidates
T2 - Explaining under-representation of women in Danish municipal politics *Working paper*
AU - Dahl, Malte
AU - Nyrup, Jacob
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Why are women under-represented even in democratic and egalitarian countries? Previous research considers either demand-side or supply-side explanations. We integrate both perspectives in a least-likely case for the under-representation of women, namely the municipal councils in Denmark. The data is from a candidate choice conjoint experiment,a survey among potential candidates and data on the actual pool of nominated candidates.On the demand-side, we show that there is no pro-male bias in general or in combination with other candidate traits nor that traits evaluated positively by voters appear more frequently among actual male candidates. On the supply-side, we find that women are less likely to be interested in running for political office. This is primarily because women assess their own political qualifications significantly lower than men. The gender imbalance is therefore driven by an under-supply of female candidates. This suggests that we should focus more on supply-side factors to overcome the gender imbalance.
AB - Why are women under-represented even in democratic and egalitarian countries? Previous research considers either demand-side or supply-side explanations. We integrate both perspectives in a least-likely case for the under-representation of women, namely the municipal councils in Denmark. The data is from a candidate choice conjoint experiment,a survey among potential candidates and data on the actual pool of nominated candidates.On the demand-side, we show that there is no pro-male bias in general or in combination with other candidate traits nor that traits evaluated positively by voters appear more frequently among actual male candidates. On the supply-side, we find that women are less likely to be interested in running for political office. This is primarily because women assess their own political qualifications significantly lower than men. The gender imbalance is therefore driven by an under-supply of female candidates. This suggests that we should focus more on supply-side factors to overcome the gender imbalance.
M3 - Working paper
SP - 1
EP - 46
BT - Confident and cautious candidates
PB - Copenhagen University
ER -
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