Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter?

0397453 - SOÚ 2015 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Stegmaier, M. - Tosun, J. - Vlachová, Klára
Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter?
East European Politics and Societies. Roč. 28, č. 1 (2014), s. 187-204. ISSN 0888-3254. E-ISSN 1533-8371
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Czech Republic * parliament * female representation
Subject RIV: AD - Politology ; Political Sciences
Impact factor: 0.437, year: 2014
http://eep.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/22/0888325413494771.full.pdf+html

After the initial post-communist drop in representation, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) hovered around 15 percent for nearly 15 years. However, in the 2010 parliamentary election, something happened. After years of little change, the percentage of women MPs jumped from 15.5 percent to 22 percent. Here, we conceive the 2010 elections as a “natural experiment” and discuss the primary factors that produced such an increase: the change in preference voting rules, activities of non-governmental organizations, and the political context surrounding the election.
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