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The tenure gap in electoral participation: instrumental motivation or selection bias? Comparing homeowners and tenants across four housing regimes
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Abstract Integrating housing tenure in Instrumental Motivation Theory predicts a tenure gap in electoral participation, as homeowners would be more motivated to vote compared with tenants. The empirical question is whether this effect is causal or rather due to selection into different housing tenures. This ... view more
Integrating housing tenure in Instrumental Motivation Theory predicts a tenure gap in electoral participation, as homeowners would be more motivated to vote compared with tenants. The empirical question is whether this effect is causal or rather due to selection into different housing tenures. This question is tackled using coarsened exact matching (CEM) on data for 19 countries, allowing us to better control for endogeneity. Even then, homeowners are found to vote more often than tenants. This association is stronger in countries characterized by a strong pro-homeownership ideology and/or where the financialization of housing markets turned houses into assets.... view less
Keywords
Europe; United States of America; voter turnout; apartment ownership; renter; residential behavior; rental appartment; voting behavior
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
EU-SILC; tenure gap
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 241-265
Journal
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58 (2017) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715217712779
ISSN
1745-2554
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed