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Mixed Effects of Legislative Quotas in South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Jiso Yoon  and
Ki-young Shin
Jiso Yoon
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Ki-young Shin
Affiliation:
Ochanomizu University
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Gender and politics scholars have demonstrated that the women's movement plays a pivotal role in the adoption of gender quotas and in improving women's political representation (Bauer and Britton 2006; Dahlerup 2006; Krook 2009). They typically argue that domestic political transformations and international pressure help to mobilize the women's movement and demands for more women in elected offices (Huang, this volume; Krook, O'Brian, and Swip 2010). The South Korean case affirms these studies, as women's organizations often take advantage of the local political transformations to push for the gender quota adoption. However, we contend that without political parties' full commitment to implementing gender quotas and supplementing quotas with non-quota measures, efforts that prioritize the descriptive representation of women and formal quota legislation have brought only limited effects on enhancing women's political representation.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 186 - 195
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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