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The History of Electoral Gender Quotas
2020This chapter delineates the history of electoral gender quotas globally as well as with a. focus on Germany and Austria. We introduce and explain different quota designs (e.g., legislated quotas, reserved seats, voluntary party quotas) and take stock of central quota reforms in neighboring European countries that we consider instructive for our cases ...
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Gender Attitudes and Public Opinion Towards Electoral Gender Quotas in Brazil
Political Psychology, 2020Research on public opinion towards affirmative action shows that citizens often support the principle of equality while simultaneously rejecting policies that promote it in a pattern described as the “principle‐policy puzzle.” The scholarship also shows that ideology and prejudice towards the targeted group explain the puzzle with respect to racial ...
Frederico Batista Pereira
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A constitutional perspective on electoral gender quotas
2022Abstract: Countries around the world have witnessed a tremendous increase in women’s numerical representation in Parliament. This has largely been attributed to the introduction of gender quotas in more than 130 countries world-wide. Countries, however, vary as to whether they introduce gender quotas and in what form.
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Comparative Political Studies, 2013
Electoral gender quotas have become the subject of a growing literature in comparative politics, with the potential to affect how scholars study a wide range of electoral and representative processes. Yet, debates have emerged over how to define and categorize these policies, with implications for the ability to compare cases and draw broader ...
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Electoral gender quotas have become the subject of a growing literature in comparative politics, with the potential to affect how scholars study a wide range of electoral and representative processes. Yet, debates have emerged over how to define and categorize these policies, with implications for the ability to compare cases and draw broader ...
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Gender Equality from Beneath: Electoral Gender Quotas in Poland
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2013Abstract This article explores the introduction of electoral gender quotas and the unprecedented social mobilization in pursuit of gender equality in Poland. The quota law was adopted as a citizens’ initiative organized by the Congress of Women, a new women’s movement.
Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Adam Bodnar
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The Rise of Gender Quota Laws: Expanding the Spectrum of Determinants for Electoral Reform
West European Politics, 2011The seminal work of Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994), limits the definition of electoral reforms to those affecting electoral formulas, district magnitudes, assembly size, or electoral thresholds. Following this definition, studies on electoral reform have put political parties and their motivations at centre stage.
Celis, Karen, Petra, Meier, Krook, M.l.
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Electoral Gender Quotas and Women's Rights
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Electoral gender quotas, which aim to increase either the proportion of women candidates or political representatives, are currently used in over 100 countries around the world. In most cases quota measures have been adopted over the past two decades. This chapter shows that the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action fundamentally changed the
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Institutionalising Gender Equality in Spain: From Party Quotas to Electoral Gender Quotas
West European Politics, 2012This article accounts for the particular steps Spain took to institutionalise gender equality in political representation. While some West European countries, where the ‘incremental track’ was considered too slow or too ineffective, recently shifted to the ‘fast track’ (notably, Belgium, France, Italy and Portugal), Spain adopted a legislative quota in
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Reserved for Whom? The Electoral Impact of Gender Quotas in Taiwan
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Gender Quotas, Electoral Laws, and the Election of Women
Comparative Political Studies, 1998Gender quotas represent a commonly advocated method by which to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the world's legislatures. This study analyzes the effect of gender quota laws on the election of women legislators. It also examines the extent to which other electoral rules can influence the effect of quotas on the election of women ...
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