Conference Paper
Women’s Electoral Participation in Turkey: Micro and Macro Factors
No.
ERF30_152
Publisher
ERF
Date
March, 2024
Women’s electoral participation in Turkey is studied, using the probit procedure. A novelty of the study is the use of both micro-level and macro-level variables simultaneously. Furthermore, a wider range of variables are used in each of these categories than other studies on turnout in Turkey. Results show that women’s propensity to vote is related to age (at least until 49) and being married, positively, and to being an ethnic minority, having children under 6, living in an urban area, living in an electoral district with a large number of parliament members or with a dominant party, negatively. Education and household wealth have inverted-U shaped relationships with women’s probability to vote. The relationship between the effective number of parties in a woman’s province and her probability to vote, on the other hand, is U-shaped. Women living in the Black Sea, Central-East and South-East regions and those who migrated to the West from these regions are less likely to vote. Being a migrant reduces likelihood of voting unless it occurs in a province with heavy migrant concentration and large number of parliament members.
Authors
Ali Akarca
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois
Research Fellows
Aysit Tansel
Emeritus Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Authors
Şenay Üçdoğruk Birecikli
Department of Econometrics, , Faculty of Economics...