Guy-Guessing Democracy: Gender and Item Non-Response Bias in Evaluations of Democratic Institutions

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Women Politics & Policy Pub Date : 2022-04-08 DOI:10.1080/1554477X.2022.2053823

Agustín Goenaga, Michael A. Hansen

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Research on democratic attitudes has recently turned to examine citizens’ views about the performance of specific democratic institutions in their country. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey (ESS6) and the Bright Line Watch Project (BLW) in the United States, this article argues that such evaluative questions carry high levels of cognitive complexity that lead to gender gaps in item response rates. We then show that those gender gaps are present at every level of political knowledge and tend to be wider the less respondents know about the political system. Since women also tend to be more critical of democratic institutions, these results indicate that item non-response biases can make researchers underestimate overall levels of dissatisfaction with democracy, as well as overlook specific groups that may be particularly dissatisfied with the performance of certain parts of the democratic system.

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猜测民主:民主制度评价中的性别与项目无反应偏差

最近，关于民主态度的研究转向了调查公民对本国特定民主机构表现的看法。根据欧洲社会调查(ESS6)和美国Bright Line Watch Project (BLW)的数据，本文认为，这种评估性问题具有高度的认知复杂性，导致了项目答复率的性别差异。然后我们表明，这些性别差距存在于政治知识的各个层面，而且受访者对政治制度的了解越少，这种差距就越大。由于女性也更倾向于批评民主制度，这些结果表明，项目无反应偏见可能使研究人员低估了对民主的总体不满程度，同时忽视了可能对民主制度某些部分的表现特别不满的特定群体。

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Journal of Women Politics & Policy Multiple-

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1.80

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy explores women and their roles in the political process as well as key policy issues that impact women''s lives. Articles cover a range of tops about political processes from voters to leaders in interest groups and political parties, and office holders in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (including the increasingly relevant international bodies such as the European Union and World Trade Organization). They also examine the impact of public policies on women''s lives in areas such as tax and budget issues, poverty reduction and income security, education and employment, care giving, and health and human rights — including violence, safety, and reproductive rights — among many others. This multidisciplinary, international journal presents the work of social scientists — including political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy specialists — who study the world through a gendered lens and uncover how gender functions in the political and policy arenas. Throughout, the journal places a special emphasis on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and other dimensions of women''s experiences.