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Democracy and the Adoption of Electoral Gender Quotas Worldwide [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Politics, 2022
This article theorizes and uses global and longitudinal data on gender quota laws to investigate how levels and dimensions of democracy affect the adoption of different quotatypes. Our results demonstrate that countries at middle levels of the democracy scale are more likely to adopt quotas.
Pär, Zetterberg   +3 more
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Electoral Gender Quotas: Lessons from Argentina and Chile

Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2003
This comparative case study examines the role of electoral quotas for increasing women's representation in Argentina and Chile. The Central hypothesis is that gender quotas in favourable electoral systems increase women's representation, and a corollary hypothesis is that more women in politics should also promote gender issues in public policy.
Tricia Gray
exaly   +2 more sources

Gender Attitudes and Public Opinion Towards Electoral Gender Quotas in Brazil

Political Psychology, 2020
Research 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
exaly   +2 more sources

The History of Electoral Gender Quotas

2020
This 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 ...
Petra Ahrens   +3 more
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