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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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 quota types.
Zetterberg P +3 more
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Lessons from a Late Adopter: Feminist Advocacy, Democratizing Reforms, and Gender Quotas in Chile
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2023 Many Latin American and other Global South countries adopted gender quotas during democratic transitions. What explains late-adopting cases like Chile?
Jennifer M. Piscopo +3 more
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Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide
The Journal of Politics, 2018 The rapid expansion of electoral gender quotas in the past few decades has been met with considerable scholarly and public attention.
Clayton, Amanda, Zetterberg, Pär
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Socially gainful gender quotas [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas.
Stark, Oded, Hyll, Walter
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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas
Africa Spectrum, 2023 Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas.
Réginas Ndayiragije +2 more
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Making Women Visible: How Gender Quotas Shape Global Attitudes toward Women in Politics
Politics & Gender, 2023 Since the 1990s, gender quotas have been celebrated for improving women’s equality. Yet their cross-national and longitudinal impact on attitudes toward female politicians and the mechanism through which this process occurs are not well understood. Using
Jessica Kim, K. Fallon
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Direct and spillover effects of board gender quotas: Revisiting the Norwegian experience
Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 2023 Building on the Norwegian case, this study examines the long‐term implications of board gender quotas on the advancement of gender diversity in managerial leadership.
Josep García-Blandón +3 more
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Women Just Wanna Have Quotas: The Gender Divide on Affirmative Action in the Chilean Right
Colombia Internacional, 2023 Objective/context: This article examines attitudes towards gender quotas by right-wing leadership in Chile and assesses gender gaps in supporting affirmative action.
Julieta Suárez-Cao
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Gender diversity on corporate boards: Directors’ perceptions of board functioning and gender quotas
Journal of Governance and Regulation, 2023 This research explores how increased gender diversity on corporate boards in Iceland, driven by applying a “hard” public policy, i.e., board gender quota legislation, has affected post-quota board directors’ perceptions of board functioning.
Audur Arna Arnardottir +2 more
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