Postdoctoral Researcher, Political Science, University of Basel | Parliaments, Representation, Coalition Governance
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Daniel Höhmann
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📒 What we find
Women MPs are not generally more accurate than men in estimating voters’ preferences on women’s issues. However, consistent with a strategic argument, their accuracy increases significantly when they are electorally vulnerable.
🔎 What we do
Empirically, we rely on a unique pair of parallel surveys of citizens and elected representatives in Germany and Switzerland, allowing us to directly compare politicians’ perceptions with voters’ actual preferences.
⚖️ Why it matters
This underscores how gendered expectations still structure political behavior, creating unequal constraints for men and women MPs.
💡 What this means
Gendered role expectations continue to shape political behavior. Women MPs face stronger expectations to be knowledgeable about women’s issues. When re-election is uncertain, women legislators have stronger incentives to engage more closely with voter preferences.
📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately.
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Dr. Daniel Höhmann (Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft) ordnet in drei aktuellen Medienbeiträgen ein, warum junge Menschen in der Schweizer Politik strukturell unterrepräsentiert sind — und auf welchen Wegen sie sich politisch engagieren.
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🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇
These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩💼
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@dahoehmann.bsky.social has been interested in politics since his school days – less so in active participation and more in looking at political processes. Today, his research focuses on the question of how women are represented in politics.
What drives his passion for this topic 👇
Die beiden Herren im Vorschaubild gilt es zu ignorieren, es geht um einen viel interessanteren Kollegen bei uns am Fachbereich.
Daniel Höhmann ordnet im «Echo der Zeit» (ab 28:47) ein, warum Riehen ein politischer Sonderfall ist: ungewöhnlich viele junge Menschen im Parlament – und was das bedeutet.
Are women representatives better at estimating voters’ preferences on women’s issues? New research from Basel: not generally – but under electoral pressure, women MPs are more accurate.
Read the full paper: bit.ly/49r65ip
@unibas.ch @stefaniebailer.bsky.social @dahoehmann.bsky.social
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues
