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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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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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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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Honour and Shame in Women’s Sports
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2021 This piece, first delivered as a keynote address, examines the role of honour and shame in understanding the many stories of women's involvement in sport in Ireland from the eighteenth century onwards, and especially in the modern era.
Katie Liston
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this study, we analyze the free verbal associations to the stimuli women quotas and men quotas of 327 medical students. Women and men quotas are characterized by the same modus operandi (i.e., preferential treatment based on sex/gender).
Miriam K. Zehnter, Erich Kirchler
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Research on the Effect of Rwanda Gender Quotas on Political Representation and Optimizing Strategy [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesThis essay examines the effect of Rwanda's gender quotas on political representation, especially in the Rwandan government, and proposes a few optimizing strategies for it to develop. Rwanda is a developing and post-genocide country in Sub-Saharan Africa,
Fan Ho Sio
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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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Women’s Representation in Political Institutions [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2022 This article examines the presence of women in Catalan political institutions from 1980 until now. First, this report reviews the measures that have been adopted over the years to reduce male over-representation.
Sílvia Claveria
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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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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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