Personal Inhibition and Everyday Political Talk: Gender Differences in Participation in Informal Political Discussions

• In Event: Gender and Comparative Political Attitudes and Behavior

Brief Overview

Deliberative democracy needs citizens’ discursive interactions but participation differs between men and women. This study focuses on the sources of citizens’ inhibition to talk about politics to shed light on the background of this gender gap.

Author

• Manuel Neumann, University of Mannheim, Mannheim Centre of European Social Research