Gendered Electoral Financing
This book fills a gap. Financial incentives to empower women in politics is a new trend in tandem with or as an alternative to gender quotas. Gendered Electoral Financing tells us when and how this new strategy is successful.
Drude Dahlerup, Professor, Stockholm University
Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world.
Money is assumingly one of the greatest barriers to women in the political recruitment process. The financial disadvantage of women is expected to constitute an obstacle for womens entry into politics everywhere and especially in developing countries where womens socio-economic status is disproportionately low relative to mens. This line of reasoning has caused a global upswing in both candidate- and party-directed financial schemes introduced to enhance gender balance in political office. This book develops a typology of different kinds of gendered electoral financing schemes and builds theories about its causes and consequences. By comparing how gendered electoral financing affects political recruitment processes in both established and emerging democracies, the authors identify whether and how the funding mechanisms incentivize a shift in political behavior.
Gendered Electoral Financing is a timely, informative and well-written book that does an excellent job of explaining, in language accessible to students and researchers alike, the cost of elections, gender imbalance in political office and the effects of financial incentive mechanisms to increase womens representation in politics.
Ragnhild L. Muriaas is Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her key research interest is explaining variation in the inclusionary aspects of regimes. She has led international research projects and published extensively on topics related to representation, political decentralization, traditional authorities and gender equality in Cabo Verde, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa and Zambia. Her works appear in Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, International Political Science Review and Political Studies.
Vibeke Wang is a Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute and a coordinator of rights and gender research at the institute. Wangs research concerns questions of politics and gender with a focus on political representation and recruitment, law reform and policy outcomes in the Global South. She has extensive field research experience and has published widely, including in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Gender and Political Studies, among others.
Rainbow Murray is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London and a visiting research fellow at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po, Paris). Her primary research interests lie in political representation, gender and politics, candidate selection, French and comparative politics, political parties, parliaments and elections. She has published widely in books and journals including the American Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, Political Research Quarterly and the European Journal of Political Research.
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Gendered Electoral Financing
Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang and Rainbow Murray
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Contents
Magnus Ohman
Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, and Rainbow Murray
Part I
Party-Directed Gendered Electoral Financing
Catherine Achin, Sandrine Lvque, Anja Durovic, Elonore Lpinard, and Amy G. Mazur
Fiona Buckley and Rachel Gregory
Aleida C. Borges, Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, and Vibeke Wang
Part II
Candidate-Directed Gendered Electoral Financing
Matthew K. Gichohi
Vibeke Wang, Happy M. Kayuni, Asiyati Chiweza, and Samantha Soyiyo
Gretchen Bauer and Akosua K. Darkwah
Ragnhild Louise Muriaas and Amy G. Mazur
Catherine Achin is Professor of Political Science at Paris-Dauphine University IRISSO (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences). She works on Gender and Politics issues, Comparatives Studies and Legislative Studies. Last articles published: Jupiter Is Back: Gender in the 2017 French Presidential Campaign,
