Thanks @cwolbrecht.bsky.social for tagging my LONG COMING VERY SLOW "Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap" with Evelyne Brie. Forthcoming @worldpolitics.bsky.social!!!!
Dawn Teele
The conventional wisdom for decades has been that women were in fact more likely than men to support conservative parties after suffrage. @teele.bsky.social and Evelyne Brie have a paper challenging that conclusion: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In rich democracies today, women are much less supportive of conservative parties than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits and scho
reminds me of the horrible fact that in several European countries women's suffrage was delayed by 'progressives' fearing women would vote as their priest instructs (i.e. conservative)
Tom Theuns
Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.
