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Replication Data for: More stress, less voice? The gender gap in political participation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Title Replication Data for: More stress, less voice? The gender gap in political participation during the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRQPHR
 
Creator Burciu, Roxana Diana
Hutter, Swen
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Initial fears of a standstill in political participation during the Covid-19 pandemic have not come true. Nevertheless, the voices heard in politics may have changed in such a radically altered social and political context. Specifically, the current paper examines whether the gender gap in political participation has widened during the pandemic, reinforcing the gendered impact of the pandemic and the state measures to cope with it. To empirically assess the development and drivers of the gender gap in political participation, we rely on original survey data for Germany collected in fall 2020 and spring 2021. Based on retrospective questions about prepandemic behaviour and a within-pandemic panel, our results indicate three points: (a) the coronavirus crisis has slightly increased the gender gap in participation; (b) Covid-related burdens (such as increasing care obligations) have not restrained but fostered participation; (c) however, this mobilising effect is stronger among men than women.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Burciu, Roxana Diana