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Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap
Social scientists have devoted considerable research effort to investigate the determinants of the Partisan Gender Gap (PGG), whereby US women (men) tend to exhibit more liberal (conservative) political preferences over time. Results of a survey experiment run during the COVID-19 emergency and invol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8253555/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675684 |
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author | Antinyan, Armenak Bassetti, Thomas Corazzini, Luca Pavesi, Filippo |
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description | Social scientists have devoted considerable research effort to investigate the determinants of the Partisan Gender Gap (PGG), whereby US women (men) tend to exhibit more liberal (conservative) political preferences over time. Results of a survey experiment run during the COVID-19 emergency and involving 3,086 US residents show that exposing subjects to alternative narratives on the causes of the pandemic increases the PGG: relative to a baseline treatment in which no narrative manipulation is implemented, exposing subjects to either the Lab narrative (claiming that COVID-19 was caused by a lab accident in Wuhan) or the Nature narrative (according to which COVID-19 originated in the wildlife) makes women more liberal. The polarization effect documented in our experiment is magnified by the political orientation of participants' state of residence: the largest PGG effect is between men residing in Republican-leaning states and women living in Democratic-leaning states. JEL Classification: J16, D83, C83, C99, P16, D72. |
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spelling | pubmed-82535552021-07-03 Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap Antinyan, Armenak Bassetti, Thomas Corazzini, Luca Pavesi, Filippo Front Psychol Psychology Social scientists have devoted considerable research effort to investigate the determinants of the Partisan Gender Gap (PGG), whereby US women (men) tend to exhibit more liberal (conservative) political preferences over time. Results of a survey experiment run during the COVID-19 emergency and involving 3,086 US residents show that exposing subjects to alternative narratives on the causes of the pandemic increases the PGG: relative to a baseline treatment in which no narrative manipulation is implemented, exposing subjects to either the Lab narrative (claiming that COVID-19 was caused by a lab accident in Wuhan) or the Nature narrative (according to which COVID-19 originated in the wildlife) makes women more liberal. The polarization effect documented in our experiment is magnified by the political orientation of participants' state of residence: the largest PGG effect is between men residing in Republican-leaning states and women living in Democratic-leaning states. JEL Classification: J16, D83, C83, C99, P16, D72. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8253555/ /pubmed/34220644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675684 Text en Copyright © 2021 Antinyan, Bassetti, Corazzini and Pavesi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Antinyan, Armenak Bassetti, Thomas Corazzini, Luca Pavesi, Filippo Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title | Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title_full | Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title_fullStr | Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title_full_unstemmed | Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title_short | Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap |
title_sort | political narratives and the us partisan gender gap |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8253555/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675684 |
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