Growing Old Without Grace: Electoral Authoritarianism and the Age Composition of Russia's Regional Legislative Assemblies

Golosov, Grigorii V.

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“…(2010) find that democracy levels have a positive influence on the share of elected women in parliament. When it comes to the representation of various age groups, there is one study by Golosov (2014) focusing on Russia, which confirms that a country’s striving toward greater authoritarianism hurts young individuals’ access to parliaments. In this study, we control for whether democratic systems are more responsive than non-democracies to claims for a more balanced representation in terms of age.…”

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Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing, and, more recently, ethnicity, few studies examine age groups. We argue that the design of political institutions influences the share of young adults in parliaments across nations and hypothesize that the electoral system type, age candidacy requirements, and quotas influence the share of younger deputies in national parliaments. Analyzing an original data set with a global cross-national sample, we find that proportional representation and giving candidates the right to stand in elections as early as possible (i.e. at the age of 18) matter. In contrast, quota provisions for youths are currently too selectively applied to increase the percentage of young deputies in parliament.

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Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Stockemer

Sundström

2018

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…While theoretically there should be a clear link between the democratic ideal and increased representation of all groups in society, the actual relationship between regime types and other traditional out-groups questions this ideal (see Paxton et al 2010). For youth, there is only some preliminary evidence from Russia illustrating that youth could benefit from a democratic system of government (i.e., the article by Golosov [2014] reports that with the country's path toward greater authoritarianism, young individuals' access to regional parliaments has decreased over several election cycles in the 2000s). Yet the empirical record of other democracies renders the possibility of a generalization beyond Russia unlikely, to say the least.…”

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Youth without Representation

2022

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An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org The University of Michigan Press's open access publishing program is made possible thanks to additional funding from the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the generous support of contributing libraries. Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Why We Need Increased Youth Representation 2.1. Youth: An Important Group of Study 2.2. The Importance of Group Representation for Youth 2.2.1. Five Criteria for Why Young Adults Need Descriptive Representation 2.3. Benefits and Costs of Increased Descriptive Representation of Youth 2.4. The Vicious Cycle of Political Alienation 2.4.1. Youths' Lack of Political Interest and Knowledge 2.4.2. Youths' Lack of Conventional Political Participation 2.5. The Threefold Link between Young Adults' Low Political Interest and Knowledge, Their Low Electoral Participation, and Their Lack of Representation in Office 2.6. The Endemic Nature of the Vicious Cycle of Youths' Political Alienation 2.7. Increased Youth Representation: One Way to Break the Vicious Cycle of Youth Alienation 2.7.1. The Link between Greater Numbers of Young Candidates and Higher Youth Turnout 2.7.2. The Degree to Which Young Politicians Represent Young Voters 2.7.3. The Degree to Which Young Politicians Support Policies5 Important to Young Adults 2.8. The Youth Representation Literature and Our Contribution vi Contents Chapter 3. Youths' Underrepresentation in National Parliaments 3.1. The Magnitude of Youths' Underrepresentation in Parliament 3.2. Youth Representation in Legislatures over Time in Australia, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom 3.3. Explanatory Factors for the Variation in Youth Representation across Countries 3.3.1. Institutional Determinants of Youth Representation 3.3.2. Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Youth Representation 3.4. Research Design 3.5. Results 3.6. Discussion Chapter 4. Youth Representation across Party Delegations in Parliament 4.1. Youths' (under) Representation across Party Delegations 4.2. Young Adults in Australian, German, French, and British Party Delegations over Time 4.3. Explanatory Factors for the Variation in Youth Representation across Parties 4.4. Research Design 4.5. Results 4.6. Discussion Chapter 5. Young Politicians in Cabinet 5.1. The Magnitude of Youths' Underrepresentation in Cabinet 5.2. Youth Representation in Cabinet over Time in Australia,

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“…Поповой показывают, что «потенциал политического лидерства полностью отсутствует у 26,2 % молодежи; у 32,3 % его уровень можно оценить как низкий; средним показателем обладают 29,2 %, высокимтолько 12,2 % представителей молодежи» (Попова, 2020: 422). Среди факторов, препятствующих продвижению молодежи в региональные парламенты РФ, Г. Голосов называет тип политического режима -электоральный авторитаризм, нацеленный на сохранение у власти нынешней политической элиты (Golosov, 2014). На материалах Юго-Западной Сибири С.Ю.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Political Biographies of Women Deputies of Regional Parliaments of the Russian Federation: Generational Aspect

Kozlova,

Monahova

2021

Вест. ПГУ. Политология

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The relevance of the study is related to the need to identify fault points and intersections in the mechanisms of recruitment and promotion to the level of political decision-making of various age cohorts of the female segment of the deputy corps of regional parliaments of the Russian Federation. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the authors analyze the political biographies of two age groups of deputies of regional legislative (representative) bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation formed during the electoral cycles of 2011-2015: the first group – deputies under the age of 30; the second group is female deputies over 30 years old. The data sources are the websites of regional legislatures, specialized portals dedicated to deputies of various levels, media materials, network communities. The author analyzes such features of the socio-political portrait of female deputies as education, profession, experience of socio-political activity, etc. The authors propose a typology of the female segment of the deputy corps and identify the main career trajectories of women of different generations entering the public sphere. The conducted research shows that the fault lines in the sources of recruiting women of different generations reveal differences in the ways of representing age and gender groups in the system of parliamentarism, and the intersection lines indicate that gender is a stable institution of the Russian political system.

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Growing Old Without Grace: Electoral Authoritarianism and the Age Composition of Russia's Regional Legislative Assemblies

Cited by 9 publications

References 67 publications

Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Age representation in parliaments: Can institutions pave the way for the young?

Youth without Representation

Comparative Analysis of Political Biographies of Women Deputies of Regional Parliaments of the Russian Federation: Generational Aspect

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