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Politická reprezentace žen na pozicích starostek v Česku a na Slovensku v letech 2006–2014 : Srovnávací analýza faktorů úspěšnosti

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Maškarinec P., Klimovský D., Danišová S.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

2018

vol. 54

issue 4

529-560

Main objective of this article is to analyse political determinants of the descriptive representation of women at the local level in communal elections (i.e. the position of mayor) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the past decade. It focuses on the political opportunity structure (i.e. the structure of relationships that affect social and political behaviour) and questions whether this structure affects also women’s political representation. It shows that women are significantly advantaged in municipalities where women have held a mayoral post in a previous electoral term. In contrast to other studies, previous women’s representation in a municipal council is here found to have only a limited effect. The strong negative effect of the direct election of mayors and the negative effect of municipal size (only in Slovakia) indicate that women’s representation as mayors may be the result of interdependent phenomena that are a combination of institutional structure (e.g. electoral procedure, the mayor’s powers) and political contextual factors (past experience with a female mayor – not necessarily incumbents). This finding challenges earlier studies and it shows that any effort to identify a clear list of determinants of women’s representation as mayors is a complex task, making it difficult to pursue a broader comparative study in a different institutional environment or a different political culture.

Slovenské komunální volby v roce 2018 a politická reprezentace žen: potvrzení vývoje nebo nástup nových trendů?

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Klimovský D., Pinterič U., Maškarinec P.

Politologická revue (Czech Political Science Review)

2019

issue 2

5-25

The purpose of this study is to test the determinants of women’s descriptive representation at local level in Slovakia after last local elections in 2018. We focus on the determinants of women’s descriptive representation in Slovak district cities local councils and how various factors (socioeconomic, cultural, or political) affect women’s political representation at this level. Using multiple linear regression and local elections own dataset , we found that most important factor regarding women’s representation is the share of women in a previous electoral term in a given district city, together with other factors indicating the openness of local political culture to female representation, namely the presence of a female mayor in the previous term and the political representation of women in regional councils. On the contrary, the remaining factors had a much less impact of female representation often with an opposite effect to one expected. The results of our study thus show that, together with above mentioned factors, women are less favoured in larger cities, with a more educated population or stronger presence of independent councillors. So, we hypothesize about validity of desirability hypothesis, which stated that women would be much less represented in councils, where politicians have more resources, i.e. specifically in largest cities.

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Politická reprezentace žen na pozicích starostek v Česku a na Slovensku v letech 2006–2014 : Srovnávací analýza faktorů úspěšnosti

Slovenské komunální volby v roce 2018 a politická reprezentace žen: potvrzení vývoje nebo nástup nových trendů?