Women, Quotas and Politics

Dahlerup, Drude

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“…Phillips, 1995), and there are empirical examples from across the world of the presence of women affecting the political debate and the distribution of resources (see e.g. Lovenduski, 1986;Lovenduski and Norris, 1993;Skjeie, 1991;Dahlerup, 2006;Krook, 2006;Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004b,a). If SC MLAs in reserved constituencies have consistently favored SC individuals, or have tried to implement projects in SC areas, this kind of favoritism should gradually become visible in a decreasing gap in development between SCs and non-SCs in reserved constituencies.…”

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Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Jensenius

2015

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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This paper estimates the constituency-level development effects of quotas for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India, using a unique dataset of development indicators for more than 3,100 state assembly constituencies in 15 Indian states in 1971 and 2001. Matching constituencies on pre-treatment variables from 1971, I find that 30 years of quotas had no detectable constituency-level effect on overall development or redistribution to SCs in reserved constituencies. Interviews with politicians and civil servants in 2010 and 2011 suggest that these findings can be explained by the power of political parties and the electoral incentives created by the quota system.

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Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Jensenius

2015

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…As Dahlerup makes clear in her collective study on gender quotas, 'the mere introduction of quotas has not resulted in uniform increases in the numbers of women parliamentarians worldwide'. 32 Others similarly report mixed results. 33 In most cases the proportion of women elected does not equal the proportion of women candidates.…”

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“…34 Another frequently cited example is the Argentinean 'ley de cupos', which demonstrates how gender quotas can trigger an increase in the proportion of women elected if they exploit the electoral system. 35 Gender quotas are thought to have more of an effect when they are implemented in proportional representation list systems using closed lists, by placing women in eligible positions with the help of placement mandates.…”

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Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

Meier¹,

Lombardo

2013

Political Science

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This article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and assesses this change with reference to five criteria formerly used to assess the strategy of gender mainstreaming. These are a shift towards a more comprehensive concept of gender equality; the incorporation of a gender perspective intersected with other inequalities in mainstream politics; equal political representation; organizational changes in selection and recruitment mechanisms as well as the functioning of politics; and, finally, the displacement of hierarchies, and the empowerment of subjects. Reflection on and empirical illustrations of gender quotas with regard to these criteria reveal a mixed picture, demonstrating the need to reintroduce discussions about gender equality within politics back into gender quota debates. This discussion will not focus on the legitimacy of or need for gender quotas, but on how their implementation can contribute to the improvement of gender relations in politics beyond a quantitative sense. Approaching gender quotas through the use of criteria devised for assessing the gender mainstreaming strategy is helpful in exploring the potential of gender quotas in the transformation of gender relations.

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“…In spite of the adoption of formal gender equality politics in many arenas of society it took approximately 60 years from women's enfranchisement for Denmark, Norway and Sweden to cross the 20 percent threshold and 70 years to reach 30 percent of women in parliamentary seats (Dahlerup 2006). Moreover, women's representation did not rise to ten percent in the municipalities till 1966 and not till 1970 in the county councils.…”

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Democratisation of Denmark: The Inclusion of Women in Political Citizenship

Fiig¹,

Siim²

2012

The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe

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IntroductionIn Denmark, women gained the suffrage relatively early and undramatically in 1915, when a constitutional reform granted suffrage rights to all men and women over the age of 29. The first democratic Danish Constitution of 1849 had granted the vote to men above the age of 30 who had their own household, had lived in the constituency for at least one year, paid back or been released debt or could dispose of their own estate. "Women, poor people, criminals and fools" [fruentimmer, fattiglemmer, forbrydere og fjolser] were excluded. As a result, 14-15 % of the population could vote (Elklit et al. 2005:21).

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Women, Quotas and Politics

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Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

Democratisation of Denmark: The Inclusion of Women in Political Citizenship

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