📢 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...
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issuesdoi.org
⚖️ 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.
