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Micro-perspectives on the Gender–Corruption Link

Gender, Gender Egalitarian Values and Public Opinion on Honest Elections

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Abstract

A growing literature evidences a strong link between higher levels of gender equality and lower levels of corruption. Much of this research evaluates the link through a focus on the impact of women’s inclusion in political office holding. Few studies turn to the analysis of mass attitudes for greater understanding of this relationship or larger links between gender equality and low corruption. This chapter works with global public opinion on the importance attributed to honest elections from the most recent wave of the World Values Surveys to further test theories behind the gender–corruption link. In particular, the chapter focuses on individual-level processes that might underlie the link as well as on contextual factors on which the impact of those processes may be conditional.

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Amy C. Alexander

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  1. Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Ina Kubbe

  2. Law Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Annika Engelbert

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Alexander, A.C. (2018). Micro-perspectives on the Gender–Corruption Link. In: Kubbe, I., Engelbert, A. (eds) Corruption and Norms. Political Corruption and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66254-1_4

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