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Title [sv]
Politiska partier och politisk representation ur ett genusperspektiv. Betydelsen av byråkratisering i kandidatnomineringsproceduren.
Title [en]
Political Parties and Gendered Political Representation: Assessing the Impact of Bureaucratization in Candidate Selection Procedures
Abstract [sv]
This research project analyzes the role of political parties for women´s political representation. Political parties monopolize candidate selection in almost all countries and they thus have a direct impact on the gendered composition of parliament. Despite this monopoly the manner in which political parties select their candidates is still largely shrouded in mystery due to the scarcity of comparative data. The knowledge gap is particularly wide when it comes to non-western political parties. Using both statistical analysis and comparative case studies, the project aims at assessing the impact of a key factor of candidate selection on the propensity of political parties to select women candidates: the level of bureaucratization. We also propose to investigate if and how the level of bureaucratization in candidate selection plays out differently in different political climates. With the help of unique data produced by International IDEA covering 176 parties in 64 developing countries, the project will, first, employ factor analysis to develop a more fine-grained tool to operationalize bureaucratization, and , second, assess its impact on women´s political representation with the help of multivariate regression analysis. Thirdly, we complement the large-n analyses with case studies in Bolivia, Kenya, Georgia, and Bangladesh. The case studies enable comparisons between different types of political contexts that might cause parties to favor male candidates ahead of female ones.
Principal InvestigatorBjarnegård, Elin
Coordinating organisation
Uppsala University
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Period
2011-01-01 － 2013-12-31
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:4204Project, id: 2010-01638_VR

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