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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Democracy and the Adoption of Electoral Gender Quotas Worldwide. [PDF]
Comp Polit, 2022 Zetterberg P +3 more
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The “Quota System” and its Impact on National Parliaments and Political Parties
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2010 Gender quotas have become the ideal means to ensure the integration and mainstreaming of women in political life. More and more countries and parties have backed such measures. The question is to determine the impact they are having.
Gema Sánchez Medero
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Revista Estudos Feministas, 2010 Las cuotas de género se han convertido en el medio ideal para garantizar la integración e incorporación de las mujeres en la vida política. Cada vez son más los países y los partidos que han apostado por este tipo de medidas, y la cuestión es averiguar ...
Gema Sánchez Medero
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Endogenous Affirmative Action: Gender Bias Leads to Gender Quotas [PDF]
The adoption of gender quotas in electoral lists, like the recent “parity law” in France, can be fully rationalized on the basis of the self interest of male incumbent politicians.
Francois Maniquet +2 more
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Deliberative democracy and the politics of redistribution: the case of the Indian Panchayats [PDF]
, 2007 By examining evidence from India, where quotas for women in local government were introduced in 1993, this article argues that institutional reform can disturb hegemonic discourses sufficiently to open a window of opportunity where deliberative ...
Buch +24 more
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions [PDF]
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition ...
Balafoutas, Loukas, Sutter, Matthias
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Climate risk disclosure and greenwashing: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies
International Review of Economics & FinanceClimate change is a significant global challenge that affects corporate financial performance, business objectives, and societal sustainability. This study examines the relationship between climate risk disclosure (CRD) and greenwashing among A-share ...
Enrico Battisti +2 more
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Formal Institutions and Women’s Electoral Representation in Four European Countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2016 This research attempted to produce evidence that formal institutions, such as electoral and internal party quotas, can advance women’s active roles in the public sphere using the cases of four European countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the ...
Lu, Sophia
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A New European Parity-Democracy Sex Equality Model and why it won't Fly in the United States [PDF]
, 2012 This Article argues that over the past years, in Europe, some instruments and policies dealing with gender equality both at the national and supra-national level reflect a move from a narrow antidiscrimination frame to a broader model that tackles the
Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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