Determinants of Women's Descriptive Representation on the City Boards of the Czech Statutory Cities after the Local Elections of 2014

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Determinants of Women's Descriptive Representation on the City Boards of the Czech Statutory Cities after the Local Elections of 2014

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper focuses on question why is descriptive (or numerical) representation of women as local political leaders higher in some cities than in others? The paper focuses on the analysis of the determinants of women's political representation on city boards of the Czech statutory cities after the last local elections of 2014. We test some hypothesis, concerning two groups of factors that can potentially afefct the success of women (socioeconomic and demographic, and political contextual), thus aiming to expand theoretical and empirical research which is in the case of determinants of women's representation at the local level underdeveloped. Overall, the analysis reveals that regression models explaining presence of women on the city boards were not generally too successful, with slightly better performance of the model using socioeconomic and demographic factors. Specifially, Moravia and municipality size proved as very strong predictors of presence of women on the city boards in negative, or positive direction, respectively (although in full model municipality size variable lost its signifiance), supplementing by the proportion of female councillors in same elections, which increased successfulness of women as well. In contrast, the share of women in local councils and on city boards in the previous electoral term was not proven as statistical signifiant, similarly as party affiations' of city boards.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Determinants of Women's Descriptive Representation on the City Boards of the Czech Statutory Cities after the Local Elections of 2014

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper focuses on question why is descriptive (or numerical) representation of women as local political leaders higher in some cities than in others? The paper focuses on the analysis of the determinants of women's political representation on city boards of the Czech statutory cities after the last local elections of 2014. We test some hypothesis, concerning two groups of factors that can potentially afefct the success of women (socioeconomic and demographic, and political contextual), thus aiming to expand theoretical and empirical research which is in the case of determinants of women's representation at the local level underdeveloped. Overall, the analysis reveals that regression models explaining presence of women on the city boards were not generally too successful, with slightly better performance of the model using socioeconomic and demographic factors. Specifially, Moravia and municipality size proved as very strong predictors of presence of women on the city boards in negative, or positive direction, respectively (although in full model municipality size variable lost its signifiance), supplementing by the proportion of female councillors in same elections, which increased successfulness of women as well. In contrast, the share of women in local councils and on city boards in the previous electoral term was not proven as statistical signifiant, similarly as party affiations' of city boards.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-01019S" target="_blank" >GA16-01019S: Determinanty politické reprezentace žen na komunální úrovni v České republice a na Slovensku v letech 1994–2014</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Slovak Journal of Political Sciences

ISSN

1335-9096

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

113-133

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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