Quota Law Diversity and its Impact on the Election of Women in Mexico
Keywords:
gender quotas, electoral systems, Mexican subnational legislatures, political institutionsAbstract
This article analyzes the continual growth in the number of women elected tolegislative office in Mexico since the 1950s. We argue that the historical and institutionalreforms of the 1990s best explain the gradual and constant increase in this trend. Not all institutional reforms, however, have the same effects on the election of women. Laws thatclearly establish gender quota for legislative candidacies have the strongest effects. Thispaper uses fixed effects longitudinal regression models to test several hypotheses againstMexican legislative results from 1) 18 federal elections between 1952 and 2003 and 2) 154subnational elections between 1991 and 2005 in 31 states and the Federal District.
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