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Garand, James., Guynan, Emily. and Fournet, Monique. "The Gender Gap and Political Knowledge: Men and Women in National and State Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Inter-Continental Hotel, New Orleans, LA, Jan 13, 2004 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p67995_index.html>

Garand, J. , Guynan, E. and Fournet, M. , 2004-01-13 "The Gender Gap and Political Knowledge: Men and Women in National and State Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Inter-Continental Hotel, New Orleans, LA Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p67995_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Previous research has found that men have higher levels of political knowledge than women, both in general and after the effects of various control variables are taken into account. In this paper we explore the contours and determinants of this gender gap in political knowledge. Using data from the 2000 American National Election Study (ANES) and the 2002 Louisiana Survey, we develop a series of models in which we depict political knowledge as a function of gender, socioeconomic and demographic attributes, political attitudes and engagement, media exposure, and political life circumstances. We find that gender effects in political knowledge persist, even in the face of statistical controls. Men and women differ on their mean values for a number of control variables, so the inclusion of a wide range of independent variables does result in a moderate reduction in the magnitude of gender coefficients. We also find that the gender gap appears to be somewhat stronger for national-level political knowledge rather than state-level political knowledge. Moreover, we consider the possibility that men and women differ in their relative propensities to give incorrect and don�t know responses to knowledge questions, and our results from bivariate and multivariate analyses suggest that women are more likely to give both incorrect and don�t know responses. Finally, we test a stereotype threat model of gender differences in political knowledge, and our results from these models are somewhat inconclusive. Overall, our findings suggest that gender matters for political knowledge, with women exhibiting consistently lower levels of political knowledge across a wide range of model specifications. The persistence of gender differences is somewhat perplexing, insofar as we account for several explanations for why men have higher levels of political knowledge then women.

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