RT Journal Article
T1 Pathbreakers? Women's electoral success and future political participation
A1 Clots-Figueras, Irma
A1 Bhalotra, Sonia
A1 Iyer, Lakshmi
AB We investigate whether the event of women being competitively elected as state legislators encourages subsequent political participation among women. Using a regression discontinuity design on Indian constituency level data, 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. Thisdecline 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 institutionalised demand side barriers rather than gender specific preferences and constraints
PB Wiley
SN 0013-0133
YR 2017
FD 2017-08-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25150
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25150
LA eng
NO We gratefully acknowledge financialsupport from CMPO (Bhalotra), MEC grants ECO2011 29762, ECO2014 55953 and Programa Ramón y Cajal2014 (Clots Figueras) and Harvard Business School (Iyer).
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RD 3 may. 2024