Patrick Emmenegger
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Prof. Dr.
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Emmenegger
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Patrick
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Item type:Publication, Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment(2025-04); Existing research argues that malapportionment primarily favours rural areas, resulting in conservative biases of electoral systems. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on the study of apportionment processes by identifying the institutional design under which malapportionment may favour other regions. Because of the geographical sorting of non-citizen residents, we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment, whereas the spatial sorting of non-citizens does not affect malapportionment in the case of citizen-based apportionment. Empirically, we use sub-national data from ten advanced democracies to forward evidence that differences in apportionment mechanisms and district-level shares of non-citizen residents systematically influence malapportionment. Our findings suggest that the impact of malapportionment on political representation and public policies may be more heterogeneous than previously thought.Type:journal articleJournal:British Journal of Political ScienceVolume:55Scopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Religion and the Gender Vote Gap : Women's Changed Political Preferences from the 1970s to 2010For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men, but since the 1980s this gap has shifted direction: women in many countries are more likely than men to support left parties. The literature largely agrees on a set of political-economic factors explaining the change in women's political orientation. In this article we demonstrate that these conventional factors fall short in explaining the gender vote gap. We highlight the importance of a religious cleavage in the party system across Western European countries, restricting the free flow of religious voters between left and right parties. Given that surveys show us a constantly higher degree of religiosity among women and a persistent impact of religion on vote choice, religion explains a substantial part of the temporal as well as cross-country variation in the transition from the more conservative to the more progressive voting behavior of women.Type:working paperJournal:ZeS working paper 1/2012Volume:42Issue:2Scopus© Citations 72