Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?

We use Spain’s Equality Law to test for the existence of agency problems between party leaders and their constituents. The law mandates a 40 percent female quota on electoral lists in towns with populations above 5,000. Using pre- and postquota data by party and municipality, we implement a trip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Casas-Arce, Pablo, Saiz, Albert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106158
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-4661