Political Parties and Gender Quota Implementation: The Role of Bureaucratized Candidate Selection Procedures

Bjarnegård, Elin; Zetterberg, Pär

doi:10.5129/001041516818254400

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“…Experiences from a large number of countries show that quotas do not uniformly result in this outcome. For instance, when legally mandated quotas target candidate lists in proportional systems, party gatekeepers have commonly chosen not to comply with the quota law unless they are sanctioned for not doing so, or parties comply with the letter of the law but choose to put women in non-electable positions (Bjarnegård & Zetterberg, 2016;Hinojosa, 2012).…”

Section: How Quotas Affect Budgetary Priorities: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide

Clayton

Zetterberg

2018

The Journal of Politics

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Section: How Quotas Affect Budgetary Priorities: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide

Clayton

Zetterberg

2018

The Journal of Politics

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“…What is more important is for the party to acknowledge the significance of having more women at the decision-making level and adapting its internal party quotas. Gender quota would enable the party to nominate a certain percentage of women in general elections (Bjarnegård and Zetterberg 2016). It will secure definite numbers of women representatives.…”

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Discoursing Women’s Political Participation Towards Achieving Sustainable Development: The Case of Women in Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS)

Azmi¹

2020

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Malaysia has been committed to meet its commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. One of the goals is to achieve gender equality. However, in Malaysia, the Global Gender Gap Index which measures gender disparities in economic participation and opportunities, education attainment, health and political empowerment reported that Malaysia ranked at 111 out of 145 countries in 2016. It has fallen far from its overall ranking of 72 in 2006. In terms of political participation, the low score in politics is because of the lack of women in leadership and decision-making positions that dragged down Malaysia's index even though Malaysia had set a target for women to fill 30% or more in decision-making positions. In the recent 14th general election, a total of 252 female candidates named out of the 2,333 parliament and state seats resulted in only 92 female elected representatives. This article provides an overview of women's political participation focusing on members of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS). There were 30 female respondents interviewed and they were recruited from the two states in Malaysia namely Selangor and Kelantan. It analyses the reasons for women's missing presence at the decision-making level in the party and at national level which contributed to Malaysia's slow achievement of the SDGs. This article will discuss how PAS's organisational structure and women's preference will impose challenges towards Zaireeni Azmi 68 achieving SDG 5. Women themselves determine the level of participation and contributions that they are willing to play in politics.

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“…Much of the work on gender and party politics has focused on formal regulations and party rules, demonstrating, for example, how 'new' formal rule changes like electoral system reform and the adoption of gender quotas can alter established party practices, leading to increases in women's political presence (see for example Dahlerup, 2006). Yet, research in the field also points to the importance of comparing the content of formal rules to actual practices (Bjarnegård and Kenny, 2016;Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2016). Formal rule changes tend to have a larger impact on parties who are also 'rule-followers' (Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2016), but may have very little effect on parties that are more informalized; thus, we can never assess formal rules on their own.…”

Section: Gender Parties and Institutionsmentioning

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“…Yet, research in the field also points to the importance of comparing the content of formal rules to actual practices (Bjarnegård and Kenny, 2016;Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2016). Formal rule changes tend to have a larger impact on parties who are also 'rule-followers' (Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2016), but may have very little effect on parties that are more informalized; thus, we can never assess formal rules on their own. More recent scholarship, then, has sought to investigate more explicitly both the specific influence of informal institutions within political parties, as well as the interplay between formal and informal rules.…”

Section: Gender Parties and Institutionsmentioning

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“…Levitsky, 1998). Studies of women's political representation add an important gendered dimension to these dynamics, generally arguing that formally institutionalized and bureaucratized rules and processes are more 'women-friendly' -that is, rules that are 'detailed, explicit, standardized, implemented by party officials, and authorized in party documents' (Norris, 1996: 202; see also Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2016). Procedures that are rule-bound and formalized are easier for political 'outsiders' and traditionally underrepresented groups to identify and understand, and provide more grounds to appeal if political actors feel unjustly treated.…”

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Doing Politics Differently? Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens to the U.K. Women's Equality Party

Evans

Kenny

2019

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The UK Women's Equality Party (WEP) was established in 2015 in order to 'bring about change by winning -support, votes and seats'. It has thus far recruited tens of thousands of members and run candidates in national, devolved and local elections. This article provides one of the first empirical analyses of this new actor in UK politics. Adopting a feminist institutionalist lens we examine the extent to which WEP 'does things differently' by looking at discourse, formal party rules and informal ways of doing things 'on the ground'. Drawing upon a set of semi-structured interviews, observations of local and national party meetings, and document analysis, we argue that while WEP has to some extent tried to set up alternative participatory structures and new 'ways of working', it has also at times fallen back on more traditional, centralised and hierarchical modes of party organising, as well as informalized practices, which are more typically associated with male-dominated parties.

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Political Parties and Gender Quota Implementation: The Role of Bureaucratized Candidate Selection Procedures

Cited by 41 publications

References 13 publications

Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide

Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide

Discoursing Women’s Political Participation Towards Achieving Sustainable Development: The Case of Women in Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS)

Doing Politics Differently? Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens to the U.K. Women's Equality Party

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