Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2018
Abstract
In recent years scholars have shifted their attention from the causes behind parliamentary gender quotas to their consequences for women’s descriptive, substantive, and symbolic representation. We contribute to this literature by focusing on long-term effects of gender quotas in the context of an authoritarian one-party system. Here we contest dominant theoretical explanations which posit that gender quotas in authoritarian states primarily serve the goals of symbolic co-option and window-dressing. Rather, we argue that while authoritarian adaptation may motivate the introduction of gender quotas, these quotas may result over time in what we call a delayed integration process featuring a gradual rise of women into arenas of power alongside increasing professionalization and capabilities of women within parliament. This argument is tested and supported via a 72-year longitudinal analysis of over 6000 female and male representatives of the Vietnamese National Assembly, a single-party parliament with long-standing gender quotas.
Keywords
Gender quotas, One-party system, Parliament, Representation, Vietnam, Women
Discipline
Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
International Political Science Review
Volume
40
Issue
4
ISSN
0192-5121
Identifier
10.1177/0192512118772852
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
JOSHI, Devin K., & KUTTIKADAN Thimothy, Rakkee.(2018). Long-term impacts of parliamentary gender quotas in a single-party system: Symbolic co-option or delayed integration?. International Political Science Review, 40(4).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3033
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512118772852