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Democracy and the Adoption of Electoral Gender Quotas Worldwide. [PDF]
Comp Polit, 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.
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UNDERREPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS
Pravni VjesnikThe article studies the legal issue of women’s political (under)representation in the Croatian Parliament from the independence of the Republic of Croatia to the present day, with a special focus on the ineffectiveness of electoral gender quotas as ...
Mira Lulić, Sanda Pašuld
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ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS IN KAZAKHSTAN
Qogam jane Dauir, 2023 The scientific article is devoted to highlighting the issues of equal participation of women in the decision-making process, which is a necessary condition for taking into account the interests of women in modern society, including Kazakhstan. The article analyzes one of the most popular methods of increasing the representation of women in elected ...
Raziya Assylgozhina +2 more
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Gender quotas in single-member district electoral systems [PDF]
Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2014 Conventional knowledge on the effectiveness of gender quotas for enhancing women's political participation has, to date, been unanimous on the superiority of quotas in proportional representation (PR) systems. Yet this view overlooks the many possible alternatives to implementing gender quotas in single-member district (SMD) systems. This paper studies
Skye Christensen, Gabrielle Bardall
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The challenges of gender parity. normative tension and political violence in Bolivia and Ecuador
Punto Género, 2013 Bolivia and Ecuador reformed their Constitutions in order to establish new plurinational and intercultural states through the creation of new institutions and territories, within a political framework based on the active participation of social ...
Nélida Archenti, Laura Albaine
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América Latina Hoy, 2009 RESUMEN: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo determinar los cambios de la «estructura de oportunidades electorales» de las mujeres en Argentina a lo largo del período 1983-2005, para lo cual el trabajo va más allá de los análisis estáticos usuales y
Santiago ALLES
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Women's participation in parliament: 'Glass ceiling' syndrome and party selection [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2014 The impact of 'glass ceiling' syndrome and party selection on participation of women in parliament and other political institutions are examined in this article.
Čičkarić Lilijana
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The views of the general public on prioritising vaccination programmes against childhood diseases: A qualitative study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundDecisions regarding which vaccines are funded in the United Kingdom (UK) are increasingly informed by cost-effectiveness analyses. Such analyses use Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) as a measure of effectiveness and assume that QALYs are ...
Gemma Lasseter +4 more
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A new vision of Ukrainian politics or another political trick: reflections on the role of the electoral quota for women in Ukraine and its results [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2015 The goal of this paper is to analyse the state of women representation in the political environment in Ukraine before and after the adoption of the obligatory 30% quota, as well as to consider the attitude of the society regarding the introduction of ...
Liliia ANTONIUK
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Women in local government: Moving in from the margins
Administration, 2015 This article presents a descriptive overview of women’s participation in the elected and administrative structures of local government in the Republic of Ireland.
Buckley Fiona, Hofman Caroline
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