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 tri...

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Main Authors: Casas-Arce, Pablo (Author), Saiz, Albert (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2016-12-28T15:17:19Z.
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