Erzeel, Silvia and Caluwaerts, Didier (2015) Evidence from Belgium shows that gender quotas do not necessarily eliminate voter bias against women candidates. Democratic Audit UK (01 Sep 2015). Website.
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Abstract
To what extent do electoral gender quotas change voters’ preference for male or female political candidates? Silvia Erzeel and Didier Caluwaerts examine the electoral evidence from Belgium, a country that has progressively adopted gender quota laws since the mid-1990s. They show that although the largest group of Belgian voters now vote for both male and female candidates there is still a voter bias in favour of male candidates. In particular they find that men and voters low in political sophistication still have a higher propensity to vote for men only.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.democraticaudit.com |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2017 10:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 14:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81025 |
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