Women's Reservations and Electoral Politics in Urban Local Bodies: An Analysis of Chennai Municipal Corporation Elections, 2001

Ghosh, Archana

doi:10.1177/097152150301000106

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“…Finally, in contrast to expectations put forward in the quota literature (see, for example, Bauer 2008a;Goetz 2003;Gosh 2003), mode of election to parliament does not significantly influence speech activity in parliament. Female quota recipients do not speak less than other MPs in parliament.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, women MPs in leadership positions are expected to speak less than their male counterparts on the floor. Based on findings in the quota literature suggesting that quota recipients may be, to a larger extent than other representatives, more pliable, strongly beholden to party leaders, and relegated to subordinate or token positions (see, for example , Bauer 2008a;Goetz 2003;Gosh 2003;Meena 2004), it is hypothesised that female quota MPs will speak less than non-quota MPs on the floor of parliament.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan Mps’ Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998–2008

Wang¹

2014

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Section: Resultscontrasting

confidence: 99%

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Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan Mps’ Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998–2008

Wang¹

2014

Representation

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“…Developing a comprehensive understanding of the effect reservation institutional design has on electoral outcomes for women requires further analysis of multiple electoral years across different electoral bodies, either within India or more broadly. A promising avenue could be to compare outcomes between states who restrict consecutive gender reservations, such as Uttar Pradesh, and those who have tried mandating consecutive gender reservations over two terms, such as Tamil Nadu (Ghosh 2001). Other work should look intro broader regional differences.…”

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“…For female parshads specifically, the reservation system institutes an additional consideration: not only do community reservations change, but gender reservations do as well. In fact, in contrast to community reservations, which can be maintained over subsequent elections, 20 many states mandate that a ward cannot be reserved for a woman in consecutive elections (Chathukulam and John 2000; Ghosh 2001), likely to ensure that men from these wards are not permanently excluded from office (Bhavnani 2009). This is the case in Uttar Pradesh.…”

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Quotas as Opportunities and Obstacles: Revisiting Gender Quotas in India

Turnbull

2019

Pol & Gen

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This article addresses the empirical uncertainty regarding whether gender quotas establish a foundation of political representation and experience that encourages female candidates to compete against men. It updates and expands existing empirical research by contributing an analysis of the most recent electoral data across four municipal corporations in India over two election cycles. Critical questions on the theoretical expectation that gender quotas should encourage and enable women politicians to compete in open-gender contests over time are considered. The Indian quota system has not encouraged women to broadly compete outside the quota at the local level but has made some wards more likely to elect women. Parties also continue to resist nominating women outside the quota but are more likely to do so in wards previously represented by a woman. Finally, the unique overlap of gender and community quotas can discourage incumbency by essentially blocking incumbents from running again in their ward due to shifting community requirements.

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“…In governance, women are believed to be more courageous about ensuring implementation of work related to development, especially on issues of women's development and empowerment (Kodoth et al, 2011). They are credited with good policy making, generation of self-employment opportunities, development of poorer areas, and development of facilities for basic services like drinking water, reducing gender gap and increasing the health care facilities especially for children (Beaman et al, 2006;Ghosh, 2003;Kulkarni, 2011;Ruet et al, 2005;Sathe, et al, 2013). In order to undertake these responsibilities, WCs are required to spend a certain amount of time in the municipality and in their concerned wards.…”

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Does Time Matter? – A Study of Participation of Women in Urban Governance

Banerjee

2017

SACI

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Time is an important aspect of present day life. Everyone tries to manage time in their daily lives, but women often face many hurdles in this respect. They work in their homes as well as in the public sphere, which doubles their actual workload. Their responsibilities increase further when women are engaged in the field of governance as local representatives. The work of a local representative is considered as a 24×7 thankless job in the Indian context, and women councillors (WCs) have to work just as hard as the men. However, in the domestic sphere, because of gendered nature of household chores, women still tend to do more work than men. Due to this reason, women have to manage their time in order to provide better services to the citizens and ensure that their household duties are completed flawlessly. This paper raises the issues related to such management of time by the elected women in the urban governance of West Bengal. The issues are: first, the duration of work as a councillor and its relation with the honorarium they receive; second, the extent to which their household work hinders their path to creating their identity in urban governance; and third, the degree to which these two activities influence the quality of their leisure time. In 1995, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) developed a methodology to analyse the value of time based on the time-use activities. This research underpins this methodology to justify the unpaid and underpaid work of the WCs as well as their management of time between indoor and outdoor activities. The primary data was collected by conducting individual interviews with 38 women councillors in the four selected small cities (Darjeeling, Balurghat, Raniganj and Chinsurah) of West Bengal.

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Women's Reservations and Electoral Politics in Urban Local Bodies: An Analysis of Chennai Municipal Corporation Elections, 2001

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan Mps’ Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998–2008

Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan Mps’ Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998–2008

Quotas as Opportunities and Obstacles: Revisiting Gender Quotas in India

Does Time Matter? – A Study of Participation of Women in Urban Governance

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