The quota debate in the Czech Republic and the post-communist legacy

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00129187" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00129187 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539522000863" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539522000863</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102645" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102645</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The quota debate in the Czech Republic and the post-communist legacy

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Most countries currently use some type of legislative or voluntary party quota to increase women's descriptive representation. The Czech Republic, however, despite low female parliamentary representation and three unsuccessful legislative proposals, has never adopted any quota mechanism, and all relevant political parties are reluctant to use voluntary party quotas. The aim of this paper is to present the arguments employed in the Czech quota debate and identify the reasons for such attitudes. We study the quota debate based on elite attitudes through media analysis and interviews with politicians from across the political spectrum. We find that most politicians do not support quotas. The quota debate is dominated by liberal individualist discourses of quotas as "offensive and humiliating" and unable to solve the problem of underrepresentation caused by "women's lack of interest in electoral politics". We find that many women politicians internalize the dominant negative quota arguments which prevent them from requesting institutional change and pressing for qouta measures in their own parties. We connect the findings with historical and political experiences that could provide important insights into quota reluctance in other post-communist countries.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The quota debate in the Czech Republic and the post-communist legacy

Popis výsledku anglicky

Most countries currently use some type of legislative or voluntary party quota to increase women's descriptive representation. The Czech Republic, however, despite low female parliamentary representation and three unsuccessful legislative proposals, has never adopted any quota mechanism, and all relevant political parties are reluctant to use voluntary party quotas. The aim of this paper is to present the arguments employed in the Czech quota debate and identify the reasons for such attitudes. We study the quota debate based on elite attitudes through media analysis and interviews with politicians from across the political spectrum. We find that most politicians do not support quotas. The quota debate is dominated by liberal individualist discourses of quotas as "offensive and humiliating" and unable to solve the problem of underrepresentation caused by "women's lack of interest in electoral politics". We find that many women politicians internalize the dominant negative quota arguments which prevent them from requesting institutional change and pressing for qouta measures in their own parties. We connect the findings with historical and political experiences that could provide important insights into quota reluctance in other post-communist countries.

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CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-33896S" target="_blank" >GA21-33896S: Ženy jako občané a politici v Evropě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Women's Studies International Forum

ISSN

0277-5395

e-ISSN

1879-243X

Svazek periodika

95

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

November-December

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

1-9

Kód UT WoS článku

000869021000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85138798461