Wood, Reed (2024) The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation. Political Research Quarterly, 77 (3). pp. 915-930. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241252373
Wood, Reed (2024) The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation. Political Research Quarterly, 77 (3). pp. 915-930. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241252373
Wood, Reed (2024) The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation. Political Research Quarterly, 77 (3). pp. 915-930. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241252373
Abstract
Despite the global expansion in women’s access to political leadership in recent decades, female parliamentarians remain a distinct minority in most national legislatures. Previous studies have linked variations in women’s descriptive representation to international and domestic security threats, such as interstate war and transnational terrorist campaigns. However, existing research has thus far overlooked how the turbulence, unrest, and violence often associated with the election process itself may produce gendered electoral outcomes. I argue that violent contention in the period immediately preceding elections introduces gendered distortions to the political recruitment process that determines the gender composition of legislatures. The cumulative effect of these distortions is a reduction in the proportion of legislative seats subsequently held by women. To evaluate my hypothesis, I analyze data from 620 nominally competitive legislative elections in 128 countries between 1990 and 2012. Consistent with expectations, the results suggest that higher levels of election-related violence are associated with lower rates of women's descriptive representation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | descriptive representation; electoral violence; gender and conflict; women and politics; descriptive representation, election violence, women and politics, gender and conflict |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2024 11:27 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:05 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38302 |
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