The women’s interest mechanism and pathways to lower levels of corruption

Lena Wängnerud

Chapter 3 in Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies, 2024, pp 30-38 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to scrutinize the basis for a women’s interest mechanism in corruption research and point to developments that would increase the credibility of this perspective. The chapter will review research on the link between gender and corruption among citizens as well as among elites. It highlights that there, in a women’s interest approach, is, in specific, a lack of reasoning on how women at the elite level of society may contribute to lower levels of societal corruption. The main contribution of this chapter is the suggestion of three pathways through which a women’s interest mechanism may affect political organizations and, further down the road, corruption levels in society as a whole: (i) through interventions such as the introduction of anti-corruption legislation and oversight; (ii) through politicization of (anti)corruption; and (iii) through spillover effects and changes in norms, values, and behavior ​​among men.

Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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