Suchergebnisse

Gender-targeted public funding / Magnus Öhman -- Introducing the concept of gendered electoral financing / Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Rainbow Murray -- France : parity sanctions and campaign financing in France : increased numbers, little concrete gender transformation / Catherine Achin, Sandrine Lévêque, Anja Durovic, Eléonore Lépinard, Amy Mazur -- Ireland : gendering candidate selection : incentivising parties through state funding / Fiona Buckley, Rachel Gregory -- Cabo Verde : legislated candidate quotas with reward for compliance in Cabo Verde : victory for no one? / Aleida C. Borges, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang -- United States : for us by us : women's training organizations in the American political process / Matthew K. Gichohi -- Malawi : relieving women's costs of standing for election : Malawi's 50/50 campaigns / Vibeke Wang, Happy Kayuni, Asiyati Chiweza, Samantha Soyiyo -- Ghana : "some money has to be going...": discounted filing fees to bring more women into Parliament in Ghana / Gretchen Bauer, Akosua K. Darkwah -- Conclusion : does money talk : an initial qualitative comparative analysis / Amy Mazur, Ragnhild L. Muriaas.

How do political parties in low- and high-cost institutional contexts respond to funding inequalities as a source of gender imbalance for those seeking elected office? We rely on a 'most similar' logic to answer this question and develop two categories of cost intensity comprised of three institutions – electoral system, candidate selection model and public funding. Our findings show that parties in both contexts see funding as a source of inequality, but that the obstacles women face are more salient to parties in a high-cost (Ghana) than a low-cost (Cabo Verde) context. Only in Ghana have parties adopted funding measures that directly target women.

This book sheds new light on gender-based inequalities in a globalized world. Interdisciplinary in scope, it reveals new avenues of research on gendered citizenship, analysing the possibilities and pitfalls of being represented and of representing someone. Drawing on contexts both historical and contemporary, it queries what it means to have access to representation, which power structures regulate and produce representation, and who counts as a citizen. Situating its arguments in the global struggle for hegemony, it answers such thought-provoking questions as whether one can represent someone or be represented without recourse to citizenship and, conversely, whether it is possible to be a citizen if one does not have access to representation. This engaging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, history, media studies, political science, literature, gender studies and cultural studies.div>

Traditional leadership often coexists with modern political institutions; yet, we know little about how traditional and state authority cues—or those from male or female sources—affect public opinion. Using an original survey experiment of 1,381 Malawians embedded in the 2016 Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI), we randomly assign respondents into one of four treatment groups or a control group to hear messages about a child marriage reform from a female or male traditional authority (TA) or parliamentarian. In the sample as a whole, the female TA is as effective as the control (i.e., no endorsement), while other messengers elicit lower support (i.e., backfire effects). Endorsements produce heterogeneous effects across respondent sex and patrilineal/matrilineal customs, suggesting the need for tailored programs. Our paper adds an intersectional approach to the governance literature and offers a theoretical framework capable of explaining the impact of state and traditional endorsements across policy domains.