Why gender quotas don´t work in Brazil? The role of the electoral system and political finance
Colombia Internacional, 2018 This article seeks to explain why Brazil, despite implementing a gender quotas policy for almost 20 years, has the least number of women in national legislatures of all countries in the Americas. It compares key institutional variables, deemed central to
Teresa Sacchet
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Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Underrepresentation of women in politics is a matter of great concern to social scientists, citizens, and policymakers alike. Despite effort over the past decade to ameliorate it with gender quotas of different types, scientific research provides a mixed
Aliza Forman-Rabinovici, Lilach Nir
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The Impact of Electoral Gender Quotas on Women’s Political Participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Politics in Central Europe, 2023 Although representing half of the world population, women remain largely excluded from political power and government structures. Various strategies have been introduced to increase women’s political representation, including electoral gender quotas ...
Merdanović Ajla Van Heel +1 more
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GENDERIZING OF THE PARTICIPATION RIGHT IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS: THE ELECTORAL QUOTA AND FEMALE LEADERSHIP IN ALBANIA [PDF]
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2021 This paper is focused on the Albanian electoral system, its total inclusion approach, protection and promotion of gender characteristics, historical and legal developments on the gender quotas necessity, the comparison in time and space, the barriers and
Evis Garunja
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Does Gender Based Representation Matters in Fostering Political Inclusion of Women in Local Governments? A Case of India [PDF]
SocioEconomic Challenges, 2023 How does the legally established gender quota in local self-government bodies affect the level of representation of women in power? How does the representation of women in power increase effective political participation? Previous studies were devoted to
Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra +2 more
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2023 Legislative experience, one of the various indicators of both congressional institutionalization and political elites’ renewal, has been mostly measured by either turnover or reelection.
Gabriel Levita, Cristian Márquez Romo
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Realizacja systemu kwotowego w kontekście miejsc kobiet na listach wyborczych. Wybory do Sejmiku Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego [PDF]
Nowa Polityka Wschodnia, 2019 The article discusses the problem of implementing a quota system in placing gender representatives on electoral lists in local government elections. The research covers elections to the Regional Council (Sejmik) of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in ...
Łukasz Tomczak
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Quota election system as a way of achieving descriptive and substantive representation of women in parliaments [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2007 In ten chapters of the text are analyzed issues of under representation of women in legislative bodies (descriptive representation) matched with possibilities of their substantive representation. The substantive representation means contribution of women
Mršević Zorica
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La Manzana de la Discordia, 2016 Resumen: A partir de cifras y hechos planteados por PNUD, CEPAL, FLACSO Chile e INSTRAW sobre la participación política de las mujeres, se realiza una revisión de los debates, aplicaciones y efectos de las cuotas electorales de género en América latina.
Roberto Álvarez San Martín
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Ukraine in International Systems for Measuring Gender Inequality
Статистика України, 2021 The article contains a complete list of global and regional instruments for measuring gender inequality relevant to Ukraine with global indices at the forefront, as well as international gender equality assessment systems and data portals available at ...
K. V. Krasnikova, M. M. Skoryk
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