Proxy Women? Gender quotas and female electoral participation

• In Event: Institutionalizing Empowerment: Voting Rights, Quotas and Inequalities in Participation

Brief Overview

Do gender quotas improve female electoral participation? I use micro-level polling station electoral results and gender-wise turnout in Delhi for over 12 million voters to examine this question at a scale that has previously been possible.

Author

• Tanushree Goyal, Nuffield College, University of Oxford