Intersectionality and candidate selection in Sweden

Freidenvall, Lenita

doi:10.1177/0263395715621931

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“…In a recent article, Freidenvall (: 355) suggests that by studying ‘“which women” and “which men” are included as aspirants, candidates, and/or elected representatives, the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in candidate selection can be brought to the fore’. Engaging in a debate on how age and gender affect the electoral success of politicians, we take this argument as the starting point for this research note.…”

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Do young female candidates face double barriers or an outgroup advantage? The case of the European Parliament

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

European J Political Res

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While intersectionality is a recurrent theme in the literature on women's political representation, few studies empirically disentangle who are the women who get elected to parliaments. An argument on biases in recruitment practices suggests that those who are members of more than one outgroup, such as young women, benefit from an ‘outgroup advantage’. In elections, a candidate with two outgroup features might attract more voter support than a candidate with just one outgroup feature. Hence, nominating a candidate that is both young and female could be a rational move by (male) elites in political parties that allows them to open fewer seats to newcomers. These expectations are tested on data for all members of the European Parliament since 1979. Not only is it found that women's presence increased steadily throughout the parliament's history, but also that women's representation is consistently highest among the group of young representatives, lower among middle‐aged Members of the European Parliament and lowest among older representatives.

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Do young female candidates face double barriers or an outgroup advantage? The case of the European Parliament

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

European J Political Res

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“…majority MPs (Barker and Coff e 2018). In the national parliaments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, women with immigrant backgrounds are better represented than their male counterparts, although this is not the case in France, Germany, Greece and Italy Fernandes et al 2016;Freidenvall 2016;M€ ugge and Damstra 2013). Ethnic minority women in the former countries apparently enjoy a 'multiple identity advantage' (Fraga et al 2008), a 'Latina advantage' (Bejarano 2013) or a 'complementarity advantage' (Celis and Erzeel 2017;Celis et al 2014), facing with their doubly assigned identities less discrimination than individuals who belong to only one under-represented group (M€ ugge and Erzeel 2016).…”

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Representing their own? Ethnic minority women in the Dutch Parliament

Mügge

Pas

Wardt

2019

West European Politics

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Ethnic minority women tend to be better represented in parliaments than ethnic minority men. What does this mean for their substantive representation? This article makes use of intersectional analysis to study how the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation differs within and between gender and ethnic groups. Drawing on written parliamentary questions and the committee memberships of MPs in seven parliamentary sessions (1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) in the Netherlands, a strong link is found between descriptive and substantive representation. Female ethnic minority MPs more often sit on committees and table questions that address ethnic minority women's interests than male ethnic minority and female ethnic majority MPs. The link, however, is fragile as it is based on a small number of active MPs. This demonstrates the importance of an intersectional approach to understanding how representation works in increasingly diverse parliaments, which cannot be captured by focusing on gender or ethnicity alone.The under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in elected office is an almost universal phenomenon. But perhaps counter-intuitively, the combination of these seemingly marginal political identities can become an advantage for ethnic minority women. In the United States, more female than male elected officials have Latino and African-American backgrounds (Hardy-Fanta 2013;Orey and Brown 2014;Smooth 2006). Similarly, women in New Zealand are better represented among ethnic minority MPs, particularly M aori, than among ethnic CONTACT Liza M. M€ ugge

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“…The article complements accounts about 'what kinds' ofmale and femalecandidates benefit from electoral quotas (Franceschet, Krook, & Piscopo, 2012, p. 10;Freidenvall, 2016) and sheds light on the dynamic nature of quotas' impact on intersectional patterns of representation.…”

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Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects of Gender and Youth Quotas

Belschner

Paredes

2020

Representation

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This article investigates how paired electoral quotas re-distribute parliamentary seats between majority and minority groups. Focusing on gender and youth quotas, we use the concept of Hierarchies of Representation to analyse the political inclusion of intersectional groups. We use a dataset of 146 countries and two case studies to explore quotas' effects on HoR under different quota constellations. We find that paired quotas tend to redistribute power among women and youth rather than challenge middle-aged men's parliamentary dominance.

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Intersectionality and candidate selection in Sweden

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Do young female candidates face double barriers or an outgroup advantage? The case of the European Parliament

Do young female candidates face double barriers or an outgroup advantage? The case of the European Parliament

Representing their own? Ethnic minority women in the Dutch Parliament

Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects of Gender and Youth Quotas

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