Male-Dominated Chambers, Political Careers, and The Adoption of Legislative Gender Quotas

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Brief Overview

We argue that chambers where reelection is not the norm are more likely to adopt gender quotas. We test this theory using EHA with an original dataset on sixteen Latin American lower chambers from 1988 onward.

Authors

• Agustin Vallejo, Hobby School of Public Affairs

• Gonzalo Di Landro, Rice University