The Merit of Party Institutions: Women’s Descriptive Representation and Conservative Parties in Australia and the United Kingdom

Taflaga, Marija; Beauregard, Katrine

doi:10.1080/1554477x.2020.1701934

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“…In contrast, the Liberal Party has traditionally been opposed to formal quotas, but more recently it has implemented training programs for prospective female candidates (see Taflaga & Beauregard, 2020). Following recent demotions and retirements of high‐profile female Liberal politicians, several prominent Liberal actors have tentatively raised the question of either aspirational targets and—less commonly—binding quotas within the party.…”

Section: Ambivalent Sexism and Affirmative Actionmentioning

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Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies

Beauregard

Sheppard

2020

Political Psychology

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Previous research on support for gender quotas focuses on attitudes toward gender equality and government intervention as explanations. We argue the role of attitudes toward women in understanding support for policies aiming to increase the presence of women in politics is ambivalent—both hostile and benevolent forms of sexism contribute in understanding support, albeit in different ways. Using original data from a survey conducted on a probability‐based sample of Australian respondents, our findings demonstrate that hostile sexists are more likely to oppose increasing of women's presence in politics through the adoption of gender quotas. Benevolent sexists, on the other hand, are more likely to support these policies than respondents exhibiting low levels of benevolent sexism. We argue this is because benevolent sexism holds that women are pure and need protection; they do not have what it takes to succeed in politics without the assistance of quotas. Finally, we show that while women are more likely to support quotas, ambivalent sexism has the same relationship with support among both women and men. These findings suggest that aggregate levels of public support for gender quotas do not necessarily represent greater acceptance of gender equality generally.

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Section: Ambivalent Sexism and Affirmative Actionmentioning

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Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies

Beauregard

Sheppard

2020

Political Psychology

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“…The growing scholarly attention to women in these a priori constraining environments reflects a paradox of women's political success in parties which venerate motherhood, care, and domesticity (Celis, Childs 2018a;O'Brien 2018;Shames, Och, Cooperman 2020). Indeed, studies have shown that ideology matters in shaping the ways in which actors navigate formal and informal rules within their parties (Erzeel, Celis 2016;Taflaga, Beauregard 2020) and has the potential to impact all aspects of women's representation -descriptive, substantive, and symbolic. 2 Most studies focusing on women's recruitment to public office attribute gender-based discrimination to the characteristics of the electoral system or intra-party mechanisms (Cipullo 2021).…”

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Female politicians of the AKP: Gendered Uses and Ambiguities of Conservative Party Ideology

Drechselová¹

2021

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Exploring the conditions for youth representation: a qualitative comparative analysis of party parliamentary groups

Kurz,

Ettensperger

2023

Eur Polit Sci

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Research on the underrepresentation of youth in parliaments has rarely focused on political parties. This is surprising as parties are central in the selection of candidates and therefore should play an important role in determining the demographic composition of elected politicians. We created a data set of party parliamentary groups between 2017 and 2020 and conducted a linear regression as well as a fuzzy set QCA. Building upon previous literature, we expected the share of young Members of Parliament (MPs) to be higher under the following conditions: a low/high GDP per capita, a proportional representation electoral system, decentralized nomination processes, strong party youth organizations, an inclusive party ideology and young party structures. Our research support previous findings that electoral systems matter. Furthermore, our results indicate that whilst ideology might be a significant factor by itself, it becomes influential especially in combination with PR systems. The role of strong youth organizations, decentralized selectorates and party age seem to be highly context-dependent and more ambivalent. In summary, there is no singular condition under which we observe adequate youth representation, but rather different configurations of conditions. By applying the newest guidelines on good practices in QCA research, we present one of the first applications of these techniques in party and representation research.

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The Merit of Party Institutions: Women’s Descriptive Representation and Conservative Parties in Australia and the United Kingdom

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies

Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies

Female politicians of the AKP: Gendered Uses and Ambiguities of Conservative Party Ideology

Exploring the conditions for youth representation: a qualitative comparative analysis of party parliamentary groups

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