Don’t Know Responses and the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge

• In Event: Political knowledge

Brief Overview

Is the gender gap in political knowledge regrettable fact to be remediated or mere illusion to be dispelled? We show that much of it is illusion--but not because women know much more than appears. Rather, men know much less.

Authors

• Robert C. Luskin, The University of Texas at Austin

• Silvia Keeling, University of Milan

• John G. Bullock, Northwestern University