Improving the gender parity in the Spanish Congress of Representatives
Keywords:
Gender quotas, parity, electoral system, zipper listsAbstract
This paper is aimed at analysing the current low level of gender parity representation to Spanish Congress of Representatives along the 11 general elections. To achieve parity with the current legislation depends on the will of the political parties. It is set out as alternative the method of triple zipper applied to the closed and blocked lists, and it is shown the effect that this method would had in all the general elections. The triple zipper requires that each party heads the half of its lists with a given gender and the other half with the opposite gender, and in each constituency the half of the parties heads their lists with a gender and the other half with the opposite one. Thereby a high parliamentary gender parity is achieved, but it limits the decision-making power of parties in the elaboration of their lists.Downloads
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2015-01-01
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Ramírez González, V., & López Carmona, A. (2015). Improving the gender parity in the Spanish Congress of Representatives. Spanish Journal of Sociology, (23). Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/res/article/view/65375
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