We investigate whether term limits can help historically underrepresented groups, such as women, gain faster access to … positions of political power. We exploit evidence from Italian local elections where, in a context of rapidly increasing women … higher if term limits had not been extended. The impact is stronger in municipalities with a larger presence of women at …

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into …

Exploiting a natural voting experiment we identify female preferences for real policy issues in the electorate. We then …

Does electing female politicians increase women’s political representation? Using a difference-in-differences design on … the share of women in government. To address selection concerns, we apply the synthetic control method to a unique case of …. Our findings provide causal evidence that her entry led to a lasting rise in women’s political representation …

A large literature has studied the context that affects women’s numerical representation, but few have moved beyond … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are … parties closes the gap, we argue that a negative bias against women among party selectors thrives in contexts where …

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership … party on municipal party groups — to examine quotas’ effect on women’s selection and survival as leaders within their …, but not more likely to support the reelection of women to the post. Extending this analysis, we show that the quota …

There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the … exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are discriminated against in the organization's promotion process and (2) the … empirical tests for this phenomenon and apply them to longitudinal data on Swedish politicians. Results show that women face a …

Do electoral successes of women pave the path for more female representation? We study whether gender parity can be … main finding is that parties that elect more women by chance also elect more women in subsequent elections. Yet, this … lotteries. Consequently, the overall representation of women does not improve. Our results nevertheless indicate that a more …

In this paper, we study the effect of women's public leadership in times of crisis. More specifically, we use a …

Although many political authorities endorse the basic goal of parity between men and women across the board, reality … women. Divided among the six parties with the greatest likelihood of being elected to the Bundestag, a total of 1,979 people … are running for office in the upcoming election. Of these, 35.7 percent are women. An analysis of the lists of candidates …