Risk Aversion, Gender, and Constitutional Change

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• dc.contributor.author Verge Mestre, Tània
• dc.contributor.author Guinjoan Cesena, Marc
• dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-23T19:41:43Z
• dc.date.available 2025-01-23T19:41:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2014-03-05
• dc.description.abstract The effect of risk aversion on political behavior has received little scholarly attention. High-stake political decisions involving large amounts of uncertainty such as sovereignty referendums, though, provide a fertile ground to measure the effects of the psychological dispositions toward risk on voters’ decisions. Using experimental survey data, this article explores how risk-adverse attitudes might contribute to explaining the gender gap in support for independence in the Catalan case. The empirical analysis suggests that risk aversion has heterogeneous effects across gender. Women’s likelihood of voting in favor of secession is depressed by uneasiness with risk taking while men’s is not. Yet, the gendered impact of risk aversion on support for independence is conditional upon the type of hypothetical conjunctures about the future of the independent state respondents are confronted with. Whereas positive scenarios do not produce differences across groups, under negative scenarios risk-adverse women are significantly less likely to vote in favor of secession than men.
• dc.identifier.citation Verge T, Guinjoan M, Rodon T. Risk Aversion, Gender, and Constitutional Change. Politics & Gender. 2015;11(3):499-521. DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X15000264
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X15000264
• dc.identifier.issn 1743-923X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69262
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Politics & Gender. 2015;11(3):499-521.
• dc.rights This article has been published in a revised form in Politics & Gender http://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X15000264. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015
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• dc.subject.other Independència -- Catalunya
• dc.title Risk Aversion, Gender, and Constitutional Change
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion