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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Research Paper No. 18
Verlag: 
EcoAustria - Institute for Economic Research, Vienna
Zusammenfassung: 
This work looks at the impact of electoral rules on female participation in local legislative bodies using a natural experiment involving a series of changes to electoral law in Poland. Using an exogenous population threshold dividing municipalities into ones with proportional and ones with majoritarian elections, we estimate the effect of each electoral system on female representation. Contrary to the literature on the national elections, we ftnd that more females are elected to local councils under a majoritarian system. We link this observation to countering party bias in list placements and lower costs of electoral participation in the majoritarian system.
Schlagwörter: 
electoral rules
forms of government
female representation
regression discontinuity
JEL: 
D72
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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