Success Beyond Gender Quotas: Gender, Local Politics, and Clientelism in Morocco

Barnett, Carolyn; Shalaby, Marwa

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“…In 1997, before the quota, two women won district‐level seats, representing 0.6% of seats in parliament, whereas seven or 2.3% won in 2007 (Darhour & Dahlerup, 2013, p. 136) 10. Barnett and Shalaby (2021) find that 132 women were elected outside of the quota in the 2015 municipal elections in Morocco, with larger municipalities (>35,000 persons) that use proportional representation more likely to elect women off the quota than smaller municipalities using single‐member districts. Often, however, the progress is uneven and nonlinear.…”

Section: The Impact Of Gender Quotas In Menamentioning

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Gender quotas in the Arab world ‐ 20 years on

Welborne

Buttorff

2022

Digest Mid East Studies

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This article aims to survey the state of the literature on gender quotas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), explicitly focusing on where it stands in terms of their institutional, political, and societal impact after two decades of implementation.In addition, it considers how MENA scholarship on the topic compares with the global literature and includes insights into how region-specific work contributes to our understanding of gender quotas as an electoral and legislative institution overall.

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Section: The Impact Of Gender Quotas In Menamentioning

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Gender quotas in the Arab world ‐ 20 years on

Welborne

Buttorff

2022

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…Similarly, Shalaby and Elimam (2020) partly attribute the increase in representation within the Middle East in the past decades to the adoption of gender quotas in Algeria, Jordon and Morocco. However, Barnett and Shalaby (2021) acknowledge that clientelism still impedes women's participation beyond gender quotas as men are still perceived as better service providers.…”

Section: Literature Review: Gender Quotas In the Middle East And Wome...mentioning

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“…Scholarship on the Middle East has looked more broadly at the impact of gender quotas on the descriptive representation of women (Lu & Lu, 2020; Barnett & Shalaby, 2021; Shalaby & Elimam, 2020). The unique contextual factors within the region, including the prevalence of patriarchal norms, clientelism and tribalism and authoritarian rule have influenced how gender quotas impacted representation, particularly descriptive representation.…”

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Substantive representation of women, informal quotas and appointed upper house parliaments: The case of the Omani State Council

Al‐Lawati

2022

Digest Mid East Studies

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This paper examines the impact of informal quotas on the substantive representation of women in appointed upper parliaments using the Omani State Council as a case study. Although no formal gender quota has been institutionalized in Oman, it is presumed that the Sultan will assign 17% of the seats to women, effectively an informal quota. Through semi-structured interviews with female MPs appointed to the State Council, I examine the relationship between informal gender quotas and the substantive representation of women. The findings reveal that the majority of appointed female MPs under informal quota acted for women's interests inside and outside the parliament. Within the parliament, they reviewed legislation with consideration to women's interests and proposed studies or drafted laws on women's issues. Outside the parliament, they acted for women's interests by tapping into their social and political capital, which is presumably acquired through their appointment to the State Council.

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“…Despite the evidence for widespread clientele networks within local governance bodies (Barnett and Shalaby, 2021;Clark, 2018), and the influence of clientele relations and the quality of service delivery for shaping trust in institutions (Brixi et al, 2015;Buehler, 2016) the literature does not pay sufficient attention to how such networks interact with partisanship in transitioning settings (who gets what? ), or their ramifications for facilitating democratic institutions.…”

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“…Through “networks of dependency”, the clientele relations have continued to operate within post-Arab uprising settings (Elvira et al, 2018), shaping the popularity of Islamist parties (Cammett and Luong, 2014), citizen engagement with the judiciary (Buehler, 2016), gender-based representation (Barnett and Shalaby, 2021), and citizen mobilization, such as turning out to vote (De Miguel et al, 2015), engaging in demonstrations or attending campaign rallies (Ciftci and Bernick, 2015).…”

Section: Clientelism In the Mena Regionmentioning

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Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia

Yasun

2022

Party Politics

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Does co-partisanship with mayors influence citizen trust in local governance institutions in new democracies? I answer this question through conducting a case study in Tunisia. I evaluate Arab Barometer (2018) survey data on trust in local governance institutions, and interview data with mayors, council members and civil society organizations (CSOs). The results indicate that Tunisians who support the same political party as their mayors tend to develop greater levels of trust in local governance institutions. Both quantitative evidence through a mediation model and qualitative evidence link a substantive portion of this relationship to the perceptions of institutional performance, such as their degrees of corruption, clientelism, inclusivity and efficiency. The findings identify the role and mechanism of co-partisanship in shaping trust in local governance institutions among the emerging democracies. This contributes to understanding the influence of parties in new democracies despite their weaknesses.

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Success Beyond Gender Quotas: Gender, Local Politics, and Clientelism in Morocco

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Gender quotas in the Arab world ‐ 20 years on

Gender quotas in the Arab world ‐ 20 years on

Substantive representation of women, informal quotas and appointed upper house parliaments: The case of the Omani State Council

Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia

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