Under Pressure: Electoral Competition and Women's Representation

Pamela Campa (), Perihan Saygin and Semih Tumen
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Pamela Campa: Stockholm School of Economics

No 17386, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: How can women's representation improve in countries that do not embrace legislated gender quotas? We study municipal elections in Turkey during 2009-2019. A conservative dominant party, Erdogan's AKP, is often challenged by a Kurdish party that promotes gender equality in electoral lists. Exploiting within-municipality variation, we find that the Kurdish party winning leads AKP to increase its share of female candidates by 25 to 30% in the next election. Other opposition parties winning has a substantially lower impact. Our results suggest that one party empowering women can help reducing gender gaps in lists across-the-board.

Keywords: women political representation; electoral competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2024-10
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