%0 Journal Article
%T Electing women to new Arab assemblies: The roles of gender ideology, Islam, and tribalism in Oman
%A Ahlam Khalfan Al Subhi
%A Amy Erica Smith
%J International Political Science Review
%@ 1460-373X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0192512117700949
%X As Arab monarchies increasingly adopt and empower consultative assemblies, womenĄŻs representation varies markedly across countries. What leads citizens in these new electoral systems to vote for women? This study investigates the determinants of support for womenĄŻs representation using the first electoral survey ever conducted in Oman, prior to the October 2015 Majlis al Shura elections. It considers cross-nationally recognized factors ¨C gender ideology and religion ¨C and tribalism, a factor heretofore largely unexplored. Confirming prior studies, citizens with traditional gender ideology are much less supportive of womenĄŻs representation. Developing a simultaneous equations model, we show that religiosity and tribalism shape gender ideology. Unlike in Western countries, education is unassociated with attitudes, and there is no generational shift towards equality; younger men are less supportive of womenĄŻs representation than are older men. Increasing womenĄŻs representation requires not only increasing citizen demand for female leaders, but also changing informal tribal and formal electoral institutions
%K WomenĄŻs representation
%K Arab politics
%K tribalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512117700949