Sökning: "electoral gender quotas"

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  1. 1. Explaining Gender-Based Political Funding: A quantitative cross-national analysis of the impact of electoral, political, and cultural factors on political funding

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Saba Muneer; [2024]
    Nyckelord :gender targeted public funding; gender quotas; cross national; gender and politics; political; electoral; cultural; regression analysis;

    Sammanfattning : Despite global progress on gender equality, women continue to be underrepresented in politics. One widely debated policy measure aimed at tackling this issue is gendered public funding – which has been adopted in more than 30 countries worldwide yet remains understudied in the literature on gender and politics. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Crisis of representation and the opportunity for change: A case study of women’s representation in Chile between 2015-2022

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Albin Lundholm; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Chile; constitution; women’s representation; gender quotas; institutional trust.; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a descriptive case study of the institutional measures to improve women’s representation in Chile between 2015 and 2022. Women in Chile have historically been underrepresented because of two institutions introduced by former dictator Pinochet: the 1980 constitution and the binomial electoral system. LÄS MER

  4. 3. ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS AND WOMEN’S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE POST-WAR CONTEXT : A Comparative Analysis of The Effects of Women’s Rights Provisions In Peace Agreements on Quota-Outcomes in Nepal and Angola

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Författare :Johanna Ljung; [2022]
    Nyckelord :post-war; peace processes; peace agreements; electoral gender quotas; affirmative action; women’s political representation; women’s rights; women’s substantive representation; Nepal; Angola.;

    Sammanfattning : Following conflict, peace agreements bring an opportunity to profoundly change societal structures and add to women’s empowerment. Using affirmative action tools like electoral gender quotas, women’s numerical presence, or descriptive representation, has more than doubled since the 1995 Beijing Declaration. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Female Politicians Claiming their Equal Rights Towards Political Inclusion : A Qualitative Study of hindrances towards women’s political inclusion on a National and Devolved level in Kenya

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Maja Otterstedt; [2022]
    Nyckelord :women’s political inclusion; decentralization; quotas; subnational and national level; Kenya;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates what factors impede women's ability to be included in politics in Kenya in light of reforms such as decentralization and electoral gender quotas. The Kenyan case highlights a paradox: reforms are progressive in reaching a more gender-balanced representation, including women from more levels of the country in the political sphere. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Electoral gender quotas in post-communist societies: Evidence from Polish municipalities

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Ellen Wallin; [2021]
    Nyckelord :electoral gender quotas; local politics; discontinuity-in-differences; Poland;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the short-term effects of a legislative gender quota in candidate lists using evidence from local elections in Poland. In the context of open lists systems, quotas were introduced in 2018 in municipalities with proportional representation (over 20,000 inhabitants). LÄS MER