47 research outputs found
Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia
The literature on women's descriptive representation has looked at the debate on open and closed lists as a choice between electoral systems. This article instead focuses on whether voters or the parties are biased against female candidates. Using data from six Estonian elections, the article finds that voters are not consistently biased against female candidates and open lists do not necessarily decrease women's representation. However, unknown and non-incumbent female candidates fare significantly worse than similar men. The analysis also shows that parties do not place women in electable positions on closed lists, and closed lists do not improve women's representation
Georgina Waylen, ed., Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bacheletâs Chile. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Figure, tables, bibliographies, index, 259 pp.; hardcover 79.99.
A Portrait of Marginality. The Political Behavior of the American Woman. Edited by Marianne Githens and Jewel L. Prestage. (New York: Longman, Inc., 1977. Pp. xvii + 428. $6.95, paper.)
The Politics Of Development In Peru
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/1047/thumbnail.jp
The Women\u27s Movement In Latin America: Participation And Democracy
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/2578/thumbnail.jp