Women's absence in Sri Lankan politics: Lessons on the effectiveness and limitations of quotas to address under-representation

Vijeyarasa, Ramona

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102371

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“…Respondent 33 said, "you have to be involved in community projects". This response affirms Vijeyarasa's (2020) view that when running for office and once elected, women still need greater support networks from civil society. The findings are also in line with Care Nederland (2018) who pointed out that civil society activism can provide an important route for women to build up a political profile and enter formal politics without having to progress through political parties.…”

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“…Through participation in community projects, structures and women's groups, women get recognition and trust from community members. When running for office and once elected, women still need greater support networks from civil society (Vijeyarasa, 2020), community structures and other community-women to successfully execute their duties as councillors. In South Africa, most women were involved in community projects and protests pre-1994 and recognised by their communities.…”

Section: Community Organisations and Women's Groups Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Support Extended to Women Ward Councillors by Stakeholders in South Africa

Majola

2021

JESR

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The paper aims to explore how culture, family and community-women have shaped women councillors’ representation and participation in South Africa. It investigates the extent to which women ward councillors are gaining support from their male counterparts; other women councillors irrespective of political affiliation when women-related issues are raised in council meetings. The paper identifies reasons contributing to the non-support by key stakeholders when women-related issues are raised and when performing their duties. Post-1994 in South Africa, women’s participation in politics is still a struggle. The number of women ward councillors have been fluctuating since the local government was reformed between 1995/96. Ward councillors are elected by local communities to represent their respective wards, to be accountable to the community that elected them. The paper is exploratory and qualitative in nature. It focuses on 104 Ward and Proportional Representative (PR) councillors from local municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces. Face-to-face and telephonic interviews were employed. Findings were analyzed using content analysis and themes were induced from the data. The paper revealed that culture is gradually changing due to laws introduced. Also, family support depends on a woman marital status and family involvement in politics. However, males did not support women-related issues, but women ward councillors supported each other irrespective of political affiliation on gender issues. Community-women support councillors through women’s groups and community structures. The factors contributing to the non-support of gender-related matters include women competing with each other and political party influence. Received: 27 January 2021 / Accepted: 15 April 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

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Section: Women Support From Other Community Womenmentioning

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Support Extended to Women Ward Councillors by Stakeholders in South Africa

Majola

2021

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“…Third, the question is the causal relations between awareness, quotas, mobilisation, descriptive representation and norm change. While quotas might increase descriptive representation, Vijeyarasa (2020) argues it is necessary for political parties to value and invest in female representation and, moreover, civil society organisations, not simply women's rights organisations, must support the values of equal representation. Chauchard (2014) states that descriptive representation influences norms.…”

Section: Gender: Change and Continuity -A Critical Mass?mentioning

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(Im)Perfect Descriptive Representation: Slovenia in the Spotlight

Johannsen¹,

Krašovec²,

Čehovin³

2022

Politics in Central Europe

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The failure to ensure descriptive representation is one of the challenges facing democracy. In the literature, it is suggested that, among others, imperfect descriptive representation is connected to insufficient legitimacy as well as low trust in political institutions. This paper analyses the link between descriptive representation and both people’s satisfaction with the way democracy is working in practice and trust in political institutions in Slovenia which, despite 30 years of democratic rule, are characterised by persistent low trust and satisfaction levels. Considering longitudinal public opinion data and a database on the composition of the Slovenian parliament (eight terms) in terms of gender, age groups and education, we find that also in Slovenia especially women, the young, the elderly and those with a basic education are underrepresented, with this being reflected in trust in the parliament and people’s perception of the way in which democracy is working. Still, the fact such underrepresentation has continued for some time (regardless of certain changes) means these findings are only part of the explanation.

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“…So far, there are literatures discussing the influence of elite religious power to the winning of candidate pair for regional head (Azizah et al, 2021;García-Morán & Yates, 2022;Garfield et al, 2019;Vijeyarasa, 2020). Elite discussion was also written by Nania about the utilizing of elite to gain power and winning of election candidate pair (Tri, 2015).…”

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Sacralization Religion, Power Elite And Leadership: Female Regents In East Java

Azizah

2022

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The involvement of the local Islamic boarding school (Pesantren) elite in a regional head election in East Java becomes the winning determiner. In a direct local election, elite religious roles significantly influence the constituent's vote. The elite utilizes religious hegemony in increasing society's political participation during an election. The era of new religious movement changes the tendencies of the thinking paradigm that, for the first time, women emerge as regional heads. This paper was aimed to analyze the hegemony of the religious elite based on Pesantren in the postmodernism era in regional head elections, especially in East Java. This research used qualitative research with a descriptive perspective and content analysis of qualitative data, which revealed that there is hegemony and patron-client movement of Islamic boarding school (Pesantren) among kyai, students, alumni, sympathizers, and Pesantren communities as a strategy to win regional head. The researcher used the elite theory approach and political participation theory—research data obtained from the library and document analysis from the affiliated institution. The formulation of this problem is how the religious elite hegemony the societies by increasing public participation and convincing voters to vote for women's candidates as governor. The analysis result remarks the hegemony of the religious elite becomes a tool to obtain power in a regional head election because there are significant influences of religious elite functioning giving dogmatize to society through religious routines ritual such as religion speech

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Women's absence in Sri Lankan politics: Lessons on the effectiveness and limitations of quotas to address under-representation

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Support Extended to Women Ward Councillors by Stakeholders in South Africa

Support Extended to Women Ward Councillors by Stakeholders in South Africa

(Im)Perfect Descriptive Representation: Slovenia in the Spotlight

Sacralization Religion, Power Elite And Leadership: Female Regents In East Java

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