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Vizcarra Velarde, Stefany (2022)

Egalitarian Values and the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge: Exploring the effects of Gender Equality Values in the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge

Bachelor thesis | Politicologie (BSc)

This paper theorises whether gender-egalitarian values could be a helpful indicator in the effort of political science to explain the gender gap in political knowledge. It first develops a theoretical framework based on the gendered political socialisation process. Based on country-level data from around the World Value Survey, it examines the relationship between gender-egalitarian values and the political knowledge of respondents in the CSES survey. Overall, it offers compelling insight into descriptive representation’s potential and limitations to understand the discrepancies between men and women in political knowledge.

gender

gender-egalitarian

culture

political knowledge

gender gap

Author

Vizcarra Velarde, Stefany

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

International Relations and Organisations

Supervisors

Robison, J.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en