How Development Matters

Viterna, Jocelyn; Fallon, Kathleen M.; Beckfield, Jason

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“…These works, situated in European democracies, have detected at least three groups of factors that would explain this lower degree of representation: firstly, political and institutional factors, such as the party system, the kind of electoral system or the majority ideology of the country (Caul, ). ; secondly, cultural factors, such as the presence or absence of a strong religious tradition (Paxton and Kunovich, ), or the majority political culture of a territory (Inglehart & Norris, ); thirdly, socio‐economic factors, like an area's level of economic development (Viterna et al, ).…”

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Women's participation in democratic innovation apparatuses: the case of the autonomous region of the Basque country, Spain

2016

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Since 1990, many democratic regimes have seen an increasing number of democratic innovation apparatuses that have been the subject of many of the reflections of democratic theory. Furthermore, the notion of participation has been a priority since the early stages of the institutionalisation of gender studies. Many analyses of the presence and the voice of women in representative spaces and in social movements have been made. However, both areas of study seem to have developed in parallel, giving rise to a knowledge gap when it comes to the participation of women in public affairs by the democratic innovation apparatuses. This article is situated at the intersection of those areas. It analyses the relationship between women's participation and the extension of the public sphere in terms of obstacles. Based on the analysis of the participatory biographies of 42 women and six men who participate in 15 democratic innovation apparatuses implemented between 1978 and 2014 in the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country (Spain), five discussion groups and two direct observations, the obstacles met by the women when carrying out their participatory project in those governance apparatuses are identified. The article concludes by highlighting the currency of the public versus private and reason versus emotion categories to explain the objectivized and incorporated structure of the obstacles. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Women's participation in democratic innovation apparatuses: the case of the autonomous region of the Basque country, Spain

2016

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“…La investigación contemporánea ha demostrado que los principales modelos teóricos funcionan mucho mejor en los países desarrollados, siendo su validez más limitada en los menos desarrollados (Matland 1998;Viterna et al 2008;Rosen 2012). Por lo tanto, Matland (1998: 120) sugiere que para que sea clara la manifestación del efecto de otras variables en la representación política de las mujeres, es necesario que el país consiga un umbral mínimo de desarrollo socioeconómico (development threshold).…”

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“…Analizando un mayor número de casos, Viterna et al (2008) llegan a la misma conclusión. El modelo que incluye las variables tradicionales (el tipo de sistema electoral, el nivel de democracia, el año de la instauración del sufragio femenino) explica de una manera casi impecable la variación en el porcentaje de la representación de las mujeres en las democracias ricas y estables, pero fracasa en explicar el mismo fenómeno en los países menos desarrollados.…”

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“…Los resultados son consistentes con los argumentos a nivel legislativo de que la influencia de los factores institucionales no es universal, sino que se limita a los países que han superado un umbral mínimo de desarrollo (Matland 1998;Viterna et al 2008;Rosen 2012). Además los resultados son consistentes también con la conceptualización de las instituciones como meros mecanismos que solamente frenan o aceleran la influencia de las causas más profundas del fenómeno estudiado.…”

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Los efectos de las reglas electorales sobre el éxito de las mujeres en las elecciones presidenciales en América Latina

Kouba

Poskočilová

2014

Am. Lat. Hoy. Rev. Cienc. Soc.

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BIBLID [1130-2887 (2014) 66, 17-46] Fecha de recepción: 29 de marzo del 2013 Fecha de aceptación: 5 de enero del 2014 RESUMEN: En la última década, varias mujeres han sido candidatas exitosas en las elecciones presidenciales latinoamericanas. Pero este logro histórico ha estado limitado a pocos países de la región. ¿Cuáles son las causas principales de que en unos países las mujeres sean candidatas exitosas y en otros países no? Este artículo desarrolla argumentos basados en la teoría institucionalista y propone que es necesario buscar las explicaciones en las características institucionales de los países. Los elementos que incrementan la permisividad de los sistemas electorales para la elección de las mujeres son la fórmula electoral para la elección presidencial, las reglas constitucionales que prohíben la elección de los parientes de los expresidentes, la presencia de cuotas legislativas para la elección de mujeres y la prohibición de la reelección presidencial inmediata. El efecto de la permisividad institucional no es automático sino que está condicionado al nivel de desarrollo humano de la sociedad. Metodológicamente, se estima un modelo de regresión con el fin de explicar el porcentaje de votos que obtuvieron las mujeres en las últimas tres elecciones presidenciales en 19 países latinoamericanos. Sin embargo, la validez del modelo se confirma posteriormente con la identificación de casos anómalos.Palabras clave: sistemas electorales, representación política de mujeres, elecciones presidenciales, instituciones políticas, América Latina.

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“…Fallon, J. Beckfield (2008) [36], S. Lindberg (2004) [18], P. Norris, R. Inglehart (2000) [26], M. Jones (2007) [15], etc. ).…”

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Political participation of women in Central and Eastern Europe: comparative analysis

Surnina-Dalekorei¹

2019

Politicus

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The paper describes the process of transformation of political participation of women under the influence of various factors in the form of the comparative analysis. The aim of the study is to identify and systematize the factors influencing the level of political participation of women in developing economies. The relevance of the topic is determined by the necessity to include women as active participants in the political process of the countries of developing economies, and the creation of mechanisms that promote the growth of the role of women in authorities as a valid condition of representative democracy. The research methodology is based on the theoretical approaches to the analysis of political representation and women's participation in authorities, and also on the concept according to which the state of political participation of women is determined by a complex of socioeconomic , cultural and political factors. The western researchers find that socioeconomic factors (women's employment, women's educational level, the level of the state economic development, the strength of women's movement), cultural factors (dominant religion, ratification of CEDAW, abortion rights) and the political factors (electoral system, left party government, degree of democracy) play a role in the accounting for the variation in the degree of gender inequality in the political representation around the world. The empirical basis of work is made by the wide circle of statistical materials. While working with it the author used the elements of the statistical analysis, and computer methods of data processing (in a standard package SPSS). Statistical analysis of the trends of women's political participation in Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia has shown that the level of socialeconomic development, the relevant cultural environment and institutional factors are important mechanisms, determining the level of political participation of women in transition countries.

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How Development Matters

Cited by 50 publications

References 27 publications

Women's participation in democratic innovation apparatuses: the case of the autonomous region of the Basque country, Spain

Women's participation in democratic innovation apparatuses: the case of the autonomous region of the Basque country, Spain

Los efectos de las reglas electorales sobre el éxito de las mujeres en las elecciones presidenciales en América Latina

Political participation of women in Central and Eastern Europe: comparative analysis

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