Replication Data for: "Political Knowledge: Assessing the Stability of Gender Gaps Cross-Nationally"

This article investigates gender gaps in political knowledge by exploiting a pooled dataset containing the four modules of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, thereby allowing the comparison of seven different measurements of political knowledge, the most comprehensive comparison to date. The paper’s findings are threefold. First, the two conventional types of political knowledge—factual or placement knowledge—belong to different latent constructs and are not interchangeable. Second, most factual knowledge scales produce important variations in the size of gender gaps across and within countries over time. Third, “don’t know” as an incorrect response generally leads to broader gender gaps, given men’s higher propensity to guess.

本文依托包含四项模块的选举制度比较研究（Comparative Study of Electoral Systems，CSES）合并数据集，探究政治认知领域的性别差距，借此实现对七种政治认知测量方式的对比分析，此为截至目前覆盖最全面的同类对比研究。本研究的结论主要包含三点：其一，两类传统政治认知类型——事实型政治认知与定位型政治认知——分属不同的潜变量结构，二者不可互换使用；其二，多数事实型政治认知量表会随时间推移，在国家间及国家内部呈现出性别差距规模的显著差异；其三，若将"不知道"视为错误应答，则通常会导致测算出的性别差距更大，这是由于男性具备更高的猜测作答倾向性。