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Affirmative action programs and network benefits in the number of board positions.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Whereas governments are increasingly considering affirmative action programs to increase corporate board diversity, the effect of such programs can be superficial as they do not address the underlying problem, which is women's access to and inclusion in ...
Katarzyna Burzynska, Gabriela Contreras
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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 Quotas and Women's Political Leadership [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 2014 Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the effects of these reforms on women's political leadership are largely unknown. We exploit a natural experiment—a 50–50 quota imposed by the national board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party on 290 municipal branches—to examine quotas’ influence on women's selection to, and survival in ...
Z. O’Brien, Diana, Rickne, Johanna
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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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Institutional complementarities and gender diversity on boards: a configurational approach [PDF]
, 2016 Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: To address the lack of a complementarities-based approach in studies of board diversity, this paper seeks to understandwhether and howcertain country-level factors are causally and jointly related ...
GATTI, MAURO +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, 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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Forwards-Backwards: Internal Party Democracy in Irish Political Parties
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 All political parties want candidates that will win elections but electability is an elusive trait and how it is understood, and pursued varies greatly. Political parties have formal rules, and informal practices and preferences, for selecting candidates
Theresa Reidy
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal +2 more
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