TY - JOUR
T1 - The tenure gap in electoral participation
T2 - Instrumental motivation or selection bias? Comparing homeowners and tenants across four housing regimes
AU - André, S.C.H.
AU - Dewilde, C.L.
AU - Luijkx, R.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1177/0020715217712779
DO - 10.1177/0020715217712779
M3 - Article
SN - 0020-7152
VL - 58
SP - 241
EP - 265
JO - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
IS - 3
ER -