Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America
Politicians want to stay in power. Because winners attain office under a given set of electoral rules, any change to these rules is puzzling. When electoral reform does take place, it is expected that changes will better serve those already in power. Perhaps more than any other type of electoral rul...
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| author | Gatto, Malu A. C. |
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| description | Politicians want to stay in power. Because winners attain office under a given set of electoral rules, any change to these rules is puzzling. When electoral reform does take place, it is expected that changes will better serve those already in power. Perhaps more than any other type of electoral rule, gender quotas are explicit about who is set to win and lose from their adoption. As positive discrimination in favor of women, gender quotas limit the space for men, the clear majority of incumbents. Despite this, gender quotas are now present in every region of the world. But how has this happened? In other words, under what conditions are (men) legislators more likely to support the adoption of gender quotas? Reconstructing three decades of power struggles over quota policymaking in Latin America, the book argues that men legislators are more likely to support gender quotas when opposing the policy also imposes potential costs to their future career prospects—a scenario that has implications for the timing, strength of design, and length of the process of quota policymaking. As the first book to closely trace legislators’ behavior toward gender quotas since the policy made its way into plenary debates, Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America employs a wealth of experimental, quantitative, and qualitative data to show how an institution that explicitly seeks to replace incumbents has successfully diffused throughout Latin America despite incumbents’ resistance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1574632025-07-30T09:00:01Z Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America Gatto, Malu A. C. gender quotas, electoral reform, legislative behavior, policymaking, strategic resistance, political representation, Latin America, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America Politicians want to stay in power. Because winners attain office under a given set of electoral rules, any change to these rules is puzzling. When electoral reform does take place, it is expected that changes will better serve those already in power. Perhaps more than any other type of electoral rule, gender quotas are explicit about who is set to win and lose from their adoption. As positive discrimination in favor of women, gender quotas limit the space for men, the clear majority of incumbents. Despite this, gender quotas are now present in every region of the world. But how has this happened? In other words, under what conditions are (men) legislators more likely to support the adoption of gender quotas? Reconstructing three decades of power struggles over quota policymaking in Latin America, the book argues that men legislators are more likely to support gender quotas when opposing the policy also imposes potential costs to their future career prospects—a scenario that has implications for the timing, strength of design, and length of the process of quota policymaking. As the first book to closely trace legislators’ behavior toward gender quotas since the policy made its way into plenary debates, Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America employs a wealth of experimental, quantitative, and qualitative data to show how an institution that explicitly seeks to replace incumbents has successfully diffused throughout Latin America despite incumbents’ resistance. 2025-03-16T04:47:26Z 2025-03-16T04:47:26Z 2025-03-13T14:21:49Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99941 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157463 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99941/1/9780198935315.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/9780198935346.001.0001 10.1093/9780198935346.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 ea797600-57ed-4e38-80ac-6526d339aad0 834de67c-4a82-4c91-bc6a-d52e5ce93f60 273 Oxford University College London UCL 10.13039/501100000765 open access |
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