The Inclusion of Excluded Majorities in South Asian Parliaments: Women, Youth, and the Working Class

Joshi, Devin K.

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“…Focusing on the representation of distinct age groups in 14 Asian countries, Joshi (2013) finds that PR fosters the representation of young adults. In a more restricted study, where he concentrates on characteristics of MPs in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Joshi (2015) confirms that PR positively affects the descriptive parliamentary representation of young adults 4 . Building on Joshi, we hypothesize that PR systems should trigger some higher representation of young adults.…”

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Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing, and, more recently, ethnicity, few studies examine age groups. We argue that the design of political institutions influences the share of young adults in parliaments across nations and hypothesize that the electoral system type, age candidacy requirements, and quotas influence the share of younger deputies in national parliaments. Analyzing an original data set with a global cross-national sample, we find that proportional representation and giving candidates the right to stand in elections as early as possible (i.e. at the age of 18) matter. In contrast, quota provisions for youths are currently too selectively applied to increase the percentage of young deputies in parliament.

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Section: Theorymentioning

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Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…The difference between these three age groups roughly associates an MEP with one distinct generation. Defining young parliamentarians as those aged 40 years and below also follows the recent literature on youth representation (see Joshi , ; Stockemer & Sundström ).…”

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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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“…Earlier studies indicated that while relatively few women seek to hold political office (Iwanaga, 2008), they do create and implement a variety of cultural performance programs, which, for our study, may be useful in considering how TANs operate to raise awareness about environmental and gender-mainstreaming issues (Lai, 2010;Zeng, 2014). Furthermore, at a structural level, when the government does take an active role through quotas and proportional representation in electoral systems, women's agency is increased (Joshi, 2015).…”

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Women and Political Participation in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam : A Preliminary Analysis of the Local Impact of Transnational Advocacy Networks in Climate Change Adaptation

Christoff¹,

Christoff²,

Lu³

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Our study examines the various ways transnational advocacy networks (TANs) may impact the ability of women to increase their social standing in local communities in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam through climate change adaptation (CCA) programs. We analyze programs in each of the four nations and interview data from non-governmental organizers, local journalists, a social entrepreneur in India, one program manager who worked both in Vietnam and Thailand, and one strategic planner. While the programs we examine in this study are relatively new, and thus their long-term effects are as yet unknowable, our preliminary findings indicate that through technology and innovation, practical skills enhancements, and connections with local non-governmental organizations (NGO)-centered CCA projects, women have the potential to increase their political involvement and social status within their communities. While these experiences should provide women with more skills to enhance their social status, multiple structural factors in the regions on which we focused may impede women's political participation. We find that work-around strategies introduced in CCA programs may enable women to achieve greater autonomy. Correspondingly, NGO programs and interventions should be more successful when the state officially acknowledges gender equality and women's rights. * The research project was sponsored in part by a summer research grant from the College of Arts and Sciences faculty in the Fine Arts, Humanities, and (lettered) Social Sciences (FAHSS) Fund.

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The Inclusion of Excluded Majorities in South Asian Parliaments: Women, Youth, and the Working Class

Cited by 29 publications

References 57 publications

Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

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

Women and Political Participation in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam : A Preliminary Analysis of the Local Impact of Transnational Advocacy Networks in Climate Change Adaptation

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