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Women?s Representation in European Parliamentary Elections: A Second-Order Approach?

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F12%3A%230000270" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/12:#0000270 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Women?s Representation in European Parliamentary Elections: A Second-Order Approach?

  • Original language description

    Elections to the European Parliament (EP) fall within the category of second-order national elections. Given the fact that these types of elections do not lead to the formation of government there is less at stake and, as a result, voters behave differently when casting their ballots. But what about political parties: do they also perceive the less-at-stake character of second-order elections in a similar fashion as voters and hence behave differently as well? This article draws on available electoral data related to women?s representation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to explicitly link the second-order election model to independent actions of political parties. The results show that women candidates have (1) more positions and better ranking onballot lists (equality of opportunities) as well as (2) better chances of getting elected (equality of results) when running in SOEs. Political parties remain the primary gate-keepers to political office and increasing women?s political r

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AD - Political sciences

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Politics in Central Europe

  • ISSN

    1801-3422

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    8

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    29

  • Pages from-to

    5-34

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database