How do electoral gender quotas affect policy?

A Clayton - Annual Review of Political Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Electoral gender quotas now exist in a majority of national legislatures worldwide. In
general, quotas are followed by greater legislative attention to the interests and priorities of …

[图书][B] Women, politics, and power: A global perspective

P Paxton, MM Hughes, TD Barnes - 2020 - books.google.com
Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective provides a clear, detailed introduction to
women's political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and …

[图书][B] Electoral politics in Africa since 1990: Continuity in change

J Bleck, N Van de Walle - 2019 - books.google.com
Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

International incentives for women's rights in dictatorships

D Donno, S Fox, J Kaasik - Comparative Political Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Democracy and women's rights are integrally “bundled” by the international community. This
means that dictatorships can signal adherence to international norms by demonstrating …

Women in African parliaments: Progress and prospects

G Bauer - The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, 2021 - Springer
Across Africa many countries are world leaders in terms of women's representation in
parliament with more than a dozen countries having 30% women or well more in their …

Authoritarian institutions and women's rights

D Donno, AK Kreft - Comparative Political Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
While dictatorships perform worse than democracies in respect for most human rights, a
large number of autocracies have prioritized the advancement of women's rights. We …

Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa: Some insights from democratic Botswana and autocratic Rwanda

G Bauer, JE Burnet - Women's Studies International Forum, 2013 - Elsevier
The 'fast track'approach for increasing women's representation in politics through the
adoption of electoral gender quotas has replaced the 'incremental approach'(waiting for …

Quotas and women's substantive representation: Evidence from a content analysis of Ugandan plenary debates

A Clayton, C Josefsson, V Wang - Politics & Gender, 2017 - cambridge.org
Despite the popularity of electoral gender quotas, the substantive impact of quotas on the
plenary behavior of members of parliament (MPs) has yet to be thoroughly empirically …

'Let there be a balance': Women in African Parliaments

G Bauer - Political Studies Review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been 25 years since the National Resistance Movement took power in Uganda and
ushered in an era of women's increased presence in African legislatures–at first in east and …

International rewards for gender equality reforms in autocracies

SS Bush, D Donno, P Zetterberg - American Political Science Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
How do international audiences perceive, and respond to, gender equality reforms in
autocracies? For autocrats, the post-Cold War rewards associated with democracy create …