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Incumbents' Interests and Gender Quotas
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 The introduction of mandatory gender quotas in party lists is a reform that many countries have recently adopted or have been considering. The electoral system affects the incumbents' incentives to make such reforms, their details, and their effectiveness.
Fréchette, Guillaume R. +2 more
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Do Gender Quotas Influence Women's Representation and Policies? [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010 This paper investigates the effect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I first examine the effect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and different types of government ...
Li-Ju Chen
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Quotas for Men: Reframing Gender Quotas as a Means of Improving Representation for All [PDF]
, 2014 Version not permitted, withdrawn, user ...
Bacchi +28 more
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Who supports gender quotas in Ireland? [PDF]
Irish Political Studies, 2016 ABSTRACTCandidate gender quotas were passed into law in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This paper examines support for this quota amongst three different groups: local election candidates, a sample of professionals and the general public. Using responses from three different datasets, we identify the key ideological, partisan and demographic ...
Lisa Keenan, Gail McElroy
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Gender diversity, Labour in the Boardroom, and Gender Quotas
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director represents shareholders or employees during the period ...
Kunze, Ariane, Scharfenkamp, Katrin
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Incumbents' Interests, Voters' Bias and Gender Quotas [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 The adoption of gender quotas inpart y lists has beena voluntary decision by many parties in many countries, and is now a subject of discussioninman y others. The Parity Low passed inF rance in 2001 is particularly interesting because for the first time the quota was set at 50 percent, and the deputies passing the reform are elected in single member ...
FRECHETTE, Guillaume R. +2 more
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European Journal of Volunteering and Community-Based Projects, 2022 The number of women in the boards of directors has increased in a lot in international firms, in recent years, with the help of the gender quotas, but we do not know whether this fact leads to an increase in gender equality. Based on a literature review
Stefano de Nichilo
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Gender Quotas for Political Participation and the Case of Georgia
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2022 The current study focuses on the key elements limiting the political representation of women in the modern world. In order to eliminate discrimination, some countries introduce gender quotas for political participation.
Irina S. Amiantova, Nikoloz Bitsadze
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards : Depoliticizing Gender and the Economy [PDF]
, 2017 Gender quotas for corporate boards can be seen as a way of drawing attention to gendered power within the economy as well as a way to democratize the economy, yet the debate about them has focused on the economic and business benefits of gender equality ...
Elomäki, Anna
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Gender Quotas, Context, and Substantive Representation: a Literature Review
DesafíosThis paper provides a comprehensive review of the link between descriptive and substantive representation, as well as the challenges associated with the context in which gender quotas exist.
Muhammad Sabeel Khan
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