Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond - Advances and Setbacks in the Last Two Decades

This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms intended to increase the proportion of women rapidly and effectively in key decision-making political posts. Since the 1980s, gender quotas have been implemented in various governmental bodies and, more commonly, in legislatures. Starting in Northern Europe, these policies have expanded to other European countries and later to thirteen Latin American countries. Yet, whereas gender quotas in most European countries - with the exception of Belgium and France - have been adopted voluntarily by some political parties, in Latin America national legislation mandates all parties to include in their lists a quota for women candidates to legislatures.
Although recent scholarship on gender quotas has been devoted to the adoption of gender quotas in a variety of countries, little has been done on Central and South America, despite the fact that the legisla tive «quota wave» originated there. Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond remedies that situation and provides a rich comparative analysis of this policy proliferation in Latin America as well as outside this region by also examining the adoption of legislative quotas in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia.

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Contents: Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Introduction - Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Jumping on the Bandwagon: Explaining Innovation and Diffusion of Gender Quota Laws in Latin America - Nélida Archenti/María Inés Tula: Candidate Selection as Political Barriers for Gender Quotas: The Case of Argentina at Subnational Levels - Jennifer M. Piscopo: Gender Quotas and Equity Promotion in Mexico - Pär Zetterberg: The Diffusion of Sub-National Gender Quotas in Mexico and Their Impacts - Clara Araújo/José Eustáquio Diniz Alves: Participation of Women in the Elections of 2002, 2006 and 2010: The Quota Policy and the Brazilian Electoral System - Gregory D. Schmidt: Gender Quotas in Peru: Origins, Interactions with Electoral Rules, and Re-Election - Ana Isabel García Quesada: From Temporary Measures to the Parity Principle: The Case of Costa Rica - Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco: Women's Quotas in the Dominican Republic: Advances and Detractions - Niki Johnson/Verónica Pérez: From Vanguard to Straggler: Wom en's Political Representation and Gender Quotas in Uruguay - Laman Tasch: Legislative Gender Quotas in Former Communist and Post-Conflict Societies: The Cases of Armenia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, and Serbia - Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond: Advances and Setbacks in the last two decades.