Women in Politics: The Impact of Community-Driven Development Initiatives on Women’s Political Participation

• In Event: Women Also Vote On Stuff: Gender, Participation, and Turnout

Brief Overview

We employ a quasi-experiment and original survey data to study the impact of a number of counter-gender-violence initiatives on political knowledge, engagement, and participation of women in Chennai, India.

Authors

• Alice Iannantuoni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Charla Waeiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign