MÔŽU PREFERENČNÉ HLASY UĽAHČIŤ VSTUP ŽIEN DO VRCHOLOVEJ POLITIKY?

• Authors: Gyárfášová Oľga , Trommlerová Sofia KarinaWOMEN POLITICS PREFERENTIAL VOTES PARTY GATEKEEPERS SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SLOVAKIA

Title variants

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Can preferential votes facilitate women’s entry into top politics?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Political parties’ strategies and outcomes in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary elections in a gender perspective. Slovakia’s proportional electoral system features semi-open lists and one constituency. We study two determinants of women’s long-term underrepresentation in top politics: supply of female candidates by political parties (number of women and their positions on electoral lists) and demand by voters (number of preferential votes for women). In the 2020 elections, we identify three types of candidate lists: gender-sensitive, gender-ambivalent, and masculine. Non-masculine parties’ voters promoted women disproportionately, but their preferential votes did not compensate for women’s low starting positions. As voters’ demand could not override parties’ supply, we conclude that party gatekeepers are responsible for low female political representation.

Keywords

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WOMEN; POLITICS; PREFERENTIAL VOTES; PARTY GATEKEEPERS; SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5 – 43

Contributors

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Gyárfášová Oľga

• Ústav európskych štúdií a medzinárodných vzťahov FSEV UK, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Trommlerová Sofia KarinaWOMEN POLITICS PREFERENTIAL VOTES PARTY GATEKEEPERS SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SLOVAKIA

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.1.1