Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.

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 picture on the extent to which quotas can clo...

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Autores principales:	Aliza Forman-Rabinovici, Lilach Nir
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/8ecd914171aa4f4f9ed61afedaad5635
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8ecd914171aa4f4f9ed61afedaad56352021-12-02T20:14:14ZPersonalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257665https://doaj.org/article/8ecd914171aa4f4f9ed61afedaad56352021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257665https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Underrepresentation 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 picture on the extent to which quotas can close these gender gaps under different conditions. We approach this puzzle by focusing on the orientation of electoral systems-candidate-centered vs. platform-centered-as a context that conditions the effect of quotas on representation. Our analyses of 76 countries' electoral rules and legislatures show that contrary to expectations, it is in candidate-oriented systems that quotas facilitate stronger effect on women's representation. Even after considering proportional representation, district magnitude, human development, or labor-force participation as alternative explanations, we show that quotas foster greater increases in gender representation in candidate-oriented systems. The broader implications are that in electoral systems that tend to have larger gender gaps, quotas have a substantial contribution to equal representation.Aliza Forman-RabinoviciLilach NirPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257665 (2021)
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description	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 picture on the extent to which quotas can close these gender gaps under different conditions. We approach this puzzle by focusing on the orientation of electoral systems-candidate-centered vs. platform-centered-as a context that conditions the effect of quotas on representation. Our analyses of 76 countries' electoral rules and legislatures show that contrary to expectations, it is in candidate-oriented systems that quotas facilitate stronger effect on women's representation. Even after considering proportional representation, district magnitude, human development, or labor-force participation as alternative explanations, we show that quotas foster greater increases in gender representation in candidate-oriented systems. The broader implications are that in electoral systems that tend to have larger gender gaps, quotas have a substantial contribution to equal representation.
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title	Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
title_short	Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
title_full	Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
title_fullStr	Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
title_full_unstemmed	Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
title_sort	personalism or party platform? gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.
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Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations.

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