Does officeholder gender affect citizens’ political engagement? This paper answers that question using evidence from a nationally-representative experiment in Tunisia. It finds that people were significantly more likely to want to contact their representatives when primed to think of women officeholders as compared to a mixed-gender group of officeholders.

How Officeholder Gender Shapes the Political Engagement of Constituents: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tunisia
- Post author:sdgpi
- Post published:Jun 1, 2020
- Post category:Research / SDG 5 / Sustainable Development Goals
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