Gender in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Political scientists are increasingly trying to understand how women operate within and are constrained by systems that are less than fully democratic. The papers in this panel consider how gender and money shape elections in a hybrid regime, how the legitimacy of authoritarian leaders impacts women’s representation, the degree of gender differences in casework in clientelist systems, and how women mobilize in the face of authoritarian consolidation.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women and Politics Research

Cosponsor

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• Why Do Some Autocrats Enhance Female Political Representation? - Wen-Cheng Lin, National Chengchi University; Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica

• Do Female MPs Provide Fewer Clientelistic Services? Evidence from North Africa - Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State University

• Gender Quotas and Women's Representation: Lessons from Algeria - Meriem Aissa, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Chair

• Amanda Clayton Vanderbilt University

Discussants

• Jason Seawright Northwestern University

• Amanda Clayton Vanderbilt University