Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems
By Daniel M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, Alexandra Cirone, London School of Economics, Dawn L. Teele, Johns Hopkins University, Gary W. Cox, Stanford University, and Jon H. Fiva, BI Norwegian Business School
The share of women in politics is higher, on average, under closed-list proportional representation (PR) electoral systems compared to majoritarian systems. Yet, even in PR systems, progress toward gender parity has been slow and uneven. We argue that women’s
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