Quality of Life and Women's Descriptive Representation: Female Emergence and Success in the 2018 Czech Local Elections
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13410%2F20%3A43895875" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13410/20:43895875 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/cejop_2020_2" target="_blank" >10.24132/cejop_2020_2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quality of Life and Women's Descriptive Representation: Female Emergence and Success in the 2018 Czech Local Elections
Original language description
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of quality of life, together with other factors, on female candidates' willingness to run for office and women's descriptive representation in the 2018 Czech local elections. We found that the effect of some variables was different in the case of women's emergence and success. While the share of female candidates was higher in larger cities with lower quality of life and less nationalized local party systems, women were much more successful in smaller cities with lower quality of life, less nationalized local party systems and a more strongly gendered context in the sense of previous female representation, both in city councils and on corporate boards of firms owned by the city. While the positive effect of size on women's emergence can be explained with the larger city's context which generates more access points for emergence of women candidates, the negative effect of size on women's success was due to the desirability of office effect. Furthermore, the very small effect of previous female representation on the share of female candidates can be explained by the existence of an incumbency effect, which may also underlie the different influence of the representation of women in municipally-owned firms' management. Finally, the negative effect of quality of life (at the level of both candidacy and representation) can also be linked with the desirability hypothesis. The drive to win representation and make decisions about the life of the community can be expected to be much stronger in municipalities with higher quality of life.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-04551S" target="_blank" >GA20-04551S: Patterns of Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries: Looking Inside the Black Box</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal of Politics
ISSN
2464-479X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
23-43
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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