University of Sussex
Browse
HiCN-WP-355_logo removed.pdf (989.78 kB)

Angry men and civic women? Gendered effects of conflict on political participation

Download (989.78 kB)
report
posted on 2023-06-07, 07:54 authored by Julie LitchfieldJulie Litchfield, Elodie Douarin, Fatlinda Gashi
We study the effect of the 1998-99 Kosovo war on current levels of political participation, disaggregating our analysis by the type of conflict experience, namely death or injury to self or a family member, or displacement, and by gender. We show that conflict is associated with more political participation, but with important distinctions between genders in terms of the form of participation and the experience itself. Displacement is associated with more voting among women, but not among men, and with more demonstrating by men but weaker or no effects for women; death and injury are associated with more political party membership for men, but not women. We argue that while experiences of conflict do generally increase levels of political participation, the form that this takes varies by gender, with effects on private, civic, action among women, and effects on direct, public, active, arguably more emotionally heightened engagement among men.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Published version

Publisher

Households in Conflict Network

Pages

53.0

Department affiliated with

  • Economics Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2022-03-28

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2022-04-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2022-03-28

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC