Gender and Candidate Selection

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel focuses on the intersection of gender and candidate selection, taking a variety of different methodological approaches. While there has been an increase in the numbers of women in legislatures over the past decades, significant questions still remain on the roles of electoral systems, and, especially, parties’ candidate selection strategies on the number of women elected. These are the questions that the five papers on the panels seek to address, and they cover several different countries, including Italy, Sweden, Mexico, Ireland, and Malawi.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women and Politics Research

Individual Presentations

• Strategic Candidate Selection and Women Representation: Evidence from Italy - Giulia Venturini, University of Strathclyde

• Creada la Ley, Creada la Trampa: Quotas, Party Strategy, and the Gender Gap - Diana Davila Gordillo, Leiden University; Selina Hofstetter, Tecnológico de Monterrey; Sebastian Vallejo Vera, Western University

• Candidate and Voter Perceptions of the Importance of Monetary Handouts in Malawi - Merete Bech Seeberg, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University; Laurits Aarslew, Aarhus University

Chair

• Andrea Stephanie Aldrich Yale University

Discussants

• Andrea Stephanie Aldrich Yale University

• Amanda Clayton UC Berkeley