Journal Article Effects of Interviewer–Respondent Gender Interaction on Attitudes toward Women and Politics: Findings from Morocco Get access Lindsay J. Benstead Mark O. Hatfield School Government, Division Political Science, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA is an Assistant Professor Science in the Government at University. She has conducted public opinion surveys Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia (with Ellen Lust) Libya Lust Jakob Wichmann) published Middle East Culture Communication...

Do voters regard male and female candidates equally? Does apparent religiosity of help or hurt their electoral chances? Where biases exist, what explains them? We present a novel explanation political bias, drawing from role congruity theory. It posits that contexts shape citizens' perceptions qualities make “capable leader,” which subsequently drives willingness to vote for candidates. Evidence survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Tunisian Post-Election Survey demonstrates this theory...

Why do some Arab citizens regard democracy favourably but see it as unsuitable for their country? Modernization theory contends that economic development creates modern who demand democracy. Cultural theories Islam and incompatible. Government performance argue perceive the current authoritarian government acting in a transparent manner will greater I attitudes toward are shaped by beliefs about its political, economic, religious consequences, including those related to sectarianism. test...

ABSTRACT Survey research has expanded in the Arab world since 1980s. The Spring marked a watershed when surveying became possible Tunisia and Libya, researchers added additional questions needed to answer theoretical policy questions. Almost every country now is included Barometer or World Values Survey. Yet, some scholars express view that survey context more challenging than of other regions respondents will not honestly, due authoritarianism. I argue this position reflects biases assume...

Using data from a survey of 200 M oroccan and A lgerian parliamentarians, this article assesses the relationship between parliamentarian gender, quotas, constituency service provision to females. The findings suggest that while electing women increases females, quotas are needed create mandates in clientelistic, patriarchal settings, where serving is less effective electoral strategy than men. Deputies elected through more responsive members either sex without quotas. extends theory...

'Patriarchy' is increasingly part of the political science lexicon, particularly in work on Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Yet I argue that scientists often under-conceptualize patriarchy, failing to draw existing feminist theory. This hinders explanation mechanisms sustaining gender inequality. By engaging with Kandiyoti's 'patriarchal bargain,' which sees relations as outcome negotiation, Sadiqi's 'private' 'public' can capture multi-dimensional intersectional nature patriarchy...

Abstract Few studies examine religiosity-of-interviewer effects, despite recent expansion of surveying in the Muslim world. Using data from a nationally-representative survey 800 Moroccans conducted 2007, this study investigates whether and why interviewer religiosity gender affect responses to religiously-sensitive questions. Interviewer dress affects four six items, but effects are larger more consistent for religious respondents, support power relations theory. Religious provide less...

Traditional leadership often coexists with modern political institutions; yet, we know little about how traditional and state authority cues—or those from male or female sources—affect public opinion. Using an original survey experiment of 1,381 Malawians embedded in the 2016 Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI), randomly assign respondents into one four treatment groups a control group to hear messages child marriage reform (TA) parliamentarian. In sample as whole, TA is effective...

Despite technological innovation and the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a dearth of experimental research on effects virtual instruction. Using an original field experiment conducted among 100 UAE USA students, we investigate how Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project international development shapes social trust, tolerance, political engagement. In design, UAE-based students were randomly assigned to group with either their classmates or, through online interaction,...

Many studies of women's electability in the developing world focus on single traits such as gender, ethnicity, or religion. Employing an original survey experiment Jordan, we examine impacts multiple, intersecting candidate identities voter preferences. We show empirically that existing theories electoral behavior alone cannot account for electability. An intersectional lens considers how power structures shape and produce complex effects must be verified different contexts is needed....

Why do some poor people engage in clientelism whereas others not? does sometimes take traditional forms and more instrumental forms? We propose a formal model of that addresses these questions focusing primarily on the citizen’s perspective. Citizens choose between supporting broad-based redistribution or engaging clientelism. Introducing insights from social psychology, we study interactions citizen beliefs values, their political choices. Clientelism, inefficacy, inequality legitimation...

Despite growing evidence of pro-female bias in the electorate elsewhere, conventional wisdom holds that voters Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male candidates, presumably due to sexism. We test this using a conjoint experiment administered over 30,000 respondents six MENA countries. find both female are more likely express support for candidates see them as capable than their counterparts, even stereotypically domains. argue increasing demand political outsiders explains these...

Muslim and Arab identities have long been instrumentalized to forge unifying national regional identities. The impact of Algeria’s post-colonial Arabization policies that educated people in Standard Arabic (to the exclusion dialectal Arabic, Berber, or French) on economic cleavages attitudes has underexplored. Algeria described as polarized, with cultural religious between Arabs Berbers traditionalists modernists blamed for country’s instability. Questions from a 2004 survey 820 Algerian...

Under what conditions do individuals who profess to boycott products align actual and intended consumption habits? Inconsistency between self-reported participation practice can help explain why few campaigns harm targets despite high political rates reported in surveys of Americans Europeans. Arab boycotts are fertile yet unexplored settings which assess this proposition. Using data from 820 Algerian students surveyed after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, we evaluate whether boycotters more...

Extant scholarship suggests that autocrats employ quotas to cultivate an image of democratic governance, yet the mechanisms underlying these effects are underexplored. We conceptualize Gender Diplomacy (GD) as strategic deployment women in public diplomacy enhance foreign perceptions. conducted a nationally representative survey, randomly exposing 1,241 Americans vignettes and photos depicting either all male or gender balanced Federal National Council UAE. Our findings reveal GD improves...

Tunisia's 2018 municipal elections, in which a legislated quota was implemented and women won 47 percent of seats, raises questions about whether electing female councilors improves women's representation clientelistic settings. Using data from the Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI), an original survey 3,600 Tunisians conducted 2015 by Program on Development (GLD), this article investigates relationship between local councilors' gender access to help with personal or community issues....

Scholars and democracy promoters often suggest that electoral observers' (EOs') assessments impact public opinion in a straightforward manner, yet, research on communication cautions against these sanguine assumptions. We test the of EO statements two very different contexts using survey experiments conducted among 3,361 Jordanians Tunisians. Our results demonstrate need for to consider negative consequences when implementing promotion programmes, scholars undertake further regarding impacts...

Drawing on Arab Barometer data, this article provides the backdrop for understanding continuity and change since Spring in national-level public opinion attitudes toward economic political foreign policy issues North Africa, inclusive of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia. The leverages concepts differentiation diffusion to understand how international affairs shape Africa Spring. Three findings emerge. First, about domestic are linked minds African citizens more important factors...