Journal Article
Path-breakers? Women’s electoral success and future political participation
Authors
Publication date
14 Mar 2017
Summary
We investigate whether the event of a woman being competitively elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest and that there is a decline in the entry of new women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim candidates indicate the presence of institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints.
Published in
Economic Journal
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12492
ISSN
16
Subjects
Politics and Elections. Electoral Behaviour
Links
University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1597352~S5
Notes
Online Early
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