The Electoral Gender Gap Revisited: Why Women Turn out at Higher Rates than Men in India

• In Event: Institutionalizing Empowerment: Voting Rights, Quotas and Inequalities in Participation

Brief Overview

Over the course of just 10 years, the gender gap in turnout has not just closed but reversed India. Traditional theories of women’s participation, such as modernization or individual level resource endowments, cannot account for this development.

Author

• Franziska Roscher, New York University