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- Benstead, Lindsay, et al.
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Does it matter what observers say? The impact of international election monitoring on legitimacy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Mediterranean Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-9395 .- 1743-9418. ; 27:1, s. 57-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Full Article Figures & data References Supplemental Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT 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 impact of EO statements on public opinion in two very different contexts using survey experiments conducted among 3,361 Jordanians and Tunisians. Our results demonstrate the need for democracy promoters to consider negative consequences when implementing democracy promotion programmes, and for scholars to undertake further research regarding the impacts of election monitoring on domestic attitudes.
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- Benstead, Lindsay, et al.
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Using Tablet Computers to Implement Surveys in Challenging Environments
- 2017
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Ingår i: Survey Practice. - 2168-0094. ; 10:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) has increasingly been used in developing countries, but literature and training on best practices have not kept pace. Drawing on our experiences using CAPI to implement the Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) in Tunisia and Malawi and an election study in Jordan, this paper makes practical recommendations for mitigating challenges and leveraging CAPI’s benefits to obtain high quality data. CAPI offers several advantages. Tablets facilitate complex skip patterns and randomization of long question batteries and survey experiments, which helps to reduce measurement error. Tablets’ global positioning system (GPS) technology reduces sampling error by locating sampling units and facilitating analysis of neighborhood effects. Immediate data uploading, time-stamps for individual questions, and interview duration capture allowed real time data quality checks and interviewer monitoring. Yet, CAPI entails challenges, including costs of learning new software; questionnaire programming; and piloting to resolve coding bugs; and ethical and logistical considerations, such as electricity and Internet connectivity.
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- Kao, Kristen, et al.
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Female Electability in the Arab World: The Advantages of Intersectionality
- 2021
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Ingår i: Comparative politics. - 0010-4159. ; 53:3, s. 427-464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 in Jordan, we examine the impacts of multiple, intersecting candidate identities on voter preferences. We show empirically that existing theories of electoral behavior alone cannot account for women’s electability. An intersectional lens that considers how power structures shape electability and produce complex effects that must be empirically verified in different contexts is needed. Although less electable overall, female candidates fare as well as males from similar social identity groups. Our findings underscore the need to apply intersectionality to theories of electoral behavior in the developing world and lay the groundwork for a larger research agenda explaining women’s electability in Arab elections.
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- Lust, Ellen, 1966, et al.
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Is the Future Female? Lessons from a Conjoint Experiment on Voter Preferences in Six Arab Countries
- 2024
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Ingår i: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES. - 0010-4140 .- 1552-3829.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite growing evidence of pro-female bias in the electorate elsewhere, conventional wisdom holds that voters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male candidates, presumably due to sexism. We test this conventional wisdom using a conjoint experiment administered to over 30,000 respondents in six MENA countries. We find both male and female respondents are more likely to express support for female candidates and see them as more capable than their male counterparts, even in stereotypically male domains. We argue the increasing demand for political outsiders explains these results. In highlighting the importance of such changes, our study expands the application of gender congruity theory in the MENA and beyond by offering evidence that both changes in gender stereotypes (i.e., gender roles) and in what citizens desire in leaders (i.e., leader roles) reduce anti-female bias at the polls.
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- Lust, Ellen, 1966, et al.
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Libya’s Security Dilemma
- 2014
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Ingår i: Washington Post: 7 April 2014.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Lust, Ellen, 1966, et al.
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The Gender Gap in Political Participation in North Africa
- 2015
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Ingår i: Civil Society and Political Transitions in the MENA and Southeast Asia. Middle East-Asia Project.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The MENA and Southeast Asia regions have undergone and continue to undergo massive political transitions. Differences in the process and outcomes of their transitions can be viewed through the lens of a “civil society infrastructure” and the qualitative differences in both these regions. This essay series engages a variety of issues regarding the roles and impact of civil society organizations (CSOs) in these two regions during the transition and pre-transition periods as well as in instances where the political transition is completed.
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- Lust, Ellen, 1966, et al.
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Why Tunisians (Don’t) Vote for Women
- 2015
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Ingår i: Islam and International Order. ; 15, s. 37-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Women’s under-representation in political leadership is a longstanding problem that exists at a nearly universal level, despite progress toward gender equality in some countries. A recent U.N. report on women offers staggering evidence of gender inequality, demonstrating that no country in the world has reached parity. And, even in the United States, one need only witness the debate over Hillary Clinton’s potential presidential candidacy to realize that even where female representation is promoted, gender stereotypes and biases are widespread.
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