DONDENA Seminar - Liesbet Hooghe & Gary Marks
“How and Why Women and Men Vote Differently: The Gender Gap on the Contemporary Cleavage”
SPEAKER: Liesbet Hooghe & Gary Marks (North Carolina University)
ABSTRACT:
This paper seeks to explain how the difference in voting between men and women arises over the life-course. Our premise from social role theory is that the contemporary gender gap is linked to the division of labor following the information revolution. We argue that the educational and occupational choices a person makes are highly gendered and are the most important factors mediating the effect of gender on voting. The paper uses several sources of cross-sectional and panel data to test its claims.
BIO:
Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the EUI, Florence. Hooghe was born and educated in Belgium (KU Leuven), taught at the University of Toronto (1994-2000), and moved to Chapel Hill in 2000. Hooghe has had fellowships & visiting professorships at major universities in the US and Europe. Hooghe’s research and teaching are chiefly in comparative politics, international organization, political behavior, and measurement. She is perhaps best known for her work on multilevel governance, GALTAN, and the transnational cleavage. She is a PI of the Chapel Hill Expert Data on party positioning (CHES), and of the RAI and MIA on regional and international authority. Hooghe is currently PI of a five-year advanced ERC Grant, Transnational (2021-2026), which seeks to explain political polarization in Europe and the US, and is hosted at the RSCAS, EUI. Liesbet Hooghe has received several awards, including the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award of the APSA (2017), the APSA Martha Derthick Book Award for her book Multi-level Governance and European Integration (2023), and honorary doctorates (2024) from the University of Maastricht and the University of Lausanne.
Gary Marks is Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is Professor in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. His research is chiefly in the fields of European and comparative politics, elections and political parties, multilevel governance and international organization. He has received a Humboldt Forschungspreis for his contribution to political science; the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award for his contributions to the study of multilevel governance and federalism and the Martha Derthic Award for his book, coauthored with Liesbet Hooghe, ‘Multi-Level Governance and European Integration’ from the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations section of the American Political Science Association. Marks was awarded an Advanced European Research Council grant (2010-2015) and is currently senior researcher on a second Advanced European Research Council grant (2021-2026). His research has been published widely in leading political science journals. Marks’ recent books include A Theory of International Organization (OUP 2019); Measuring International Authority (OUP 2017); Community, Scale and Regional Governance (OUP 2016); and Measuring Regional Authority (OUP 2016).
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