Replication Data for: Gender, Political Orientation, and Public Reactions to Ministerial Comebacks after Scandals

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Stavenes, Torill, 2026, "Replication Data for: Gender, Political Orientation, and Public Reactions to Ministerial Comebacks after Scandals", https://doi.org/10.18710/TTIVCO, DataverseNO, V1
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This dataset can be used to replicate the findings in the paper ""Gender, Political Orientation, and Public Reactions to Ministerial Comebacks after Scandals" (abstract below). The data we analyse is a survey experiment fielded in the Norwegian Citizen Panel (round 29) with two treatments, which was preregistered in OSF, and which asks people the extent to which they agree or disagree with parties (Conservative/Labour) allowing their (female/male) politicians to become a minister after having committed various transgressions (for example given friends an advantage in awarding public office). The read-me-file has links to the codebooks and methodological report for the Norwegian Citizen Panel round 29. The raw data can be accessed either via a csv-file or a sav file (attached), and contains the relevant variables for the analysis in the Norwegian Citizen Panel for that round. The R script attached outlines both the data wrangling executed to prepare the experiment for analysis (recoding of variables etc), and the code for the analysis itself (index construction, descriptive analysis, and regression analysis). The response-ids have been altered in this version of the dataset.

Abstract: Political misconduct is a widespread phenomenon that frequently brings careers to an abrupt end. While prior research has examined how either politician gender or party affiliation shape citizens’ willingness to forgive wrongdoing, we explore how these factors interact with the ideological leaning of the citizen. Focusing on violations of ethical guidelines, including harassment and financial misconduct, we theorize that if left-leaning citizens are more concerned with gender balance in politics, and right leaning citizens exhibit stronger out-group hostility, the result is a comparatively more lenient treatment of Conservative women. We test this theory in a multi-party setting using a survey experiment in Norway, a closed-list PR-system where voters can only indirectly influence parties’ decisions regarding scandalized politicians. Respondents were asked whether the party should allow a politician to return to a ministerial post after wrongdoing. We show that citizens are more lenient towards Conservative women, which is due to left-leaning citizens going soft on them. There is also a tendency that Labor women are treated more harshly by right-leaning citizens, while there is no similar difference between male politicians. Our findings thus explicitly show that citizens turn to gender cues when evaluating the future career of scandalized politicians from their out-groups.

(2026-03-06)
Subject Social Sciences
Keyword Scandal, Political careers, Gender, Attitudes, Partisan, Experiment
Related Publication Is Supplement To: Muriaas, Ragnhild and Torill Stavenes. Forthcoming. "Gender, Political Orientation, and Public Reactions to Ministerial Comebacks after Scandals". Political Behavior.
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