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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University of Chicago Press
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106158 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-4661 |