Women and primary elections: political participation and activation networks
Journal title PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO
Author/s Simona Gozzo, Venera Tomaselli
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 103-129 File size 508 KB
DOI 10.3280/PACO2011-001005
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This contribution aims at analyzing voters’ characteristics and their preference motivations at the first Italian national primary elections in 2005 and the Sicilian regional primary elections in 2006. This analysis mainly focuses on gender differences and is based on a sample of face-to-face interviews. In 2005 the primary elections were called in order to select the centre-left coalition candidate for the following parliamentary elections, while the 2006 ones in order to choose the president of the Sicily region. Several differences between these two primary votes are to be detected, first of all the fact that the regional primaries were much more competitive. Both elections are analyzed by focusing on the voters’ propensity for political and civic involvement with a specific gender-oriented perspective. Political engagement’s mechanisms are reconstructed, allowing to single out different participatory profiles. Furthermore, voting motivation and priorities, cognitive dimensions as well as political communication tools employed by the candidates are considered in order to provide a more accurate explanation of voters’ behavior and attitudes.
Keywords: Primary elections; Gender-oriented studies; Political participation; Civic involvement; Analysis of latent dimensions
Simona Gozzo, Venera Tomaselli, Le donne alle primarie: partecipazione politica e reti di attivazione in "PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO" 1/2011, pp 103-129, DOI: 10.3280/PACO2011-001005