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題名 | Gender Quotas and Women's Increasing Political Competitiveness= |
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作者 | Huang, Chang-ling; |
期刊 | Taiwan Journal of Democracy |
出版日期 | 20190700 |
卷期 | 15:1 2019.07[民108.07] |
頁次 | 頁25-40 |
分類號 | 572.32 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | Gender quotas; Mixed member electoral system; Reserved seats; SNTV; Women's political participation; |
英文摘要 | Taiwan is a leader and exception in Asia concerning political representation by women, with women being 38 percent of its parliament’s members. Previous studies attributed such a high percentage of women in politics to Taiwan’s early and comprehensive adoption of gender quotas, applied to both local and national elections. The increase of the number of women in parliament came from an unlikely source, however: single member districts (SMDs), which have no applied quotas and are widely regarded as unfavorable for female candidates. Based on Taiwan’s election data since the early 2000s, this essay explores the relationship between gender quotas and the increasing competitiveness of female politicians. The essay illustrates two major findings: (1) quotas for party lists have had little effect on motivating women in the proportional representation (PR) tier to run in SMDs, and (2) most of the women elected in SMDs, including parliamentary members and mayors, have chosen to run in districts with reserved seats when entering politics. The effect of gender quotas on motivating women to participate in politics under the single non-transferrable vote (SNTV) electoral system, used for national elections until 2008 and still used for Taiwan’s local elections, is again confirmed, but from a different angle. |
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