Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities
This paper focuses on the link between women’s civic engagement and elected political participation. The first part presents the theoretical aspects of both concepts – i.e. civic engagement and political involvement – and combines them with another category, namely the descriptive representation of...
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| description | This paper focuses on the link between women’s civic engagement and elected political participation. The first part presents the theoretical aspects of both concepts – i.e. civic engagement and political involvement – and combines them with another category, namely the descriptive representation of women. The second part of the paper is devoted to the methodology of the present research, which consists of both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative research examines the composition of six city councils in Poland (Wrocław, Kraków, Gdańsk, Łódź, Lublin, and Poznań) as well as city mayorships after the last elections (2018). The results confirm a positive correlation between women’s elected political participation and women’s civic engagement. The qualitative research, based on 11 semi-structured interviews, aims at explaining why the civic sector is dominated by women, even though politics still remains men’s domain. Another objective is to identify particular obstacles that prevent female civic activists from further engagement in politics. Specific recommendations for mitigating the identified obstacles and increasing the number of women in politics are provided. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6be7b93f88a9481ead6fa77e07188dcc2022-12-22T02:54:18ZengUniversity of Warsaw, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG)Studia Regionalne i Lokalne1509-49952719-80492022-04-01172110.7366/1509499518701Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish CitiesDarina Dvornichenko0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9357-0226National University ‘Odessa Maritime Academy’; Department of Maritime LawThis paper focuses on the link between women’s civic engagement and elected political participation. The first part presents the theoretical aspects of both concepts – i.e. civic engagement and political involvement – and combines them with another category, namely the descriptive representation of women. The second part of the paper is devoted to the methodology of the present research, which consists of both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative research examines the composition of six city councils in Poland (Wrocław, Kraków, Gdańsk, Łódź, Lublin, and Poznań) as well as city mayorships after the last elections (2018). The results confirm a positive correlation between women’s elected political participation and women’s civic engagement. The qualitative research, based on 11 semi-structured interviews, aims at explaining why the civic sector is dominated by women, even though politics still remains men’s domain. Another objective is to identify particular obstacles that prevent female civic activists from further engagement in politics. Specific recommendations for mitigating the identified obstacles and increasing the number of women in politics are provided.https://studreg.uw.edu.pl/pl/archiwum,assessing-the-correlation-between-womens-civic-engagement-and-elected-political-participation-a-case-study-of-six-polish-citieswomen’s civic engagementelected women’s political participationdescriptive representationlocal elections |
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| title | Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities |
| title_full | Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities |
| title_short | Assessing the Correlation Between Women’s Civic Engagement and Elected Political Participation: A Case Study of Six Polish Cities |
| title_sort | assessing the correlation between women s civic engagement and elected political participation a case study of six polish cities |
| topic | women’s civic engagement elected women’s political participation descriptive representation local elections |
| url | https://studreg.uw.edu.pl/pl/archiwum,assessing-the-correlation-between-womens-civic-engagement-and-elected-political-participation-a-case-study-of-six-polish-cities |
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