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Baldez, Lisa. "Elected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Legislative Candidates in Mexico" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62217_index.html>

Baldez, L. , 2003-08-27 "Elected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Legislative Candidates in Mexico" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62217_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In the past decade, twenty-two countries adopted gender quota laws that require between 20 0x1.e115d00000001p-895nd 501013266530f all legislative candidates to be women. What explains the adoption of these laws? This analysis argues that three factors make politicians more likely to adopt gender quota laws. First, a contagion effect links voluntary quotas at the party level and national quota laws: parties or majority coalitions in congress support quota laws in order to disperse the electoral advantage (or disadvantage) that individual parties might gain from them. The prospects for party quotas to diffuse to the national level depend on political context. Second, non-electoral branches of government support quotas as a way to demonstrate their autonomy from other branches, in the context of efforts to establish separation of powers. Finally, cross-partisan mobilization among female legislators raises the costs of opposing such legislation by drawing public attention to it. I examine these three claims with regard to Mexico, where the federal congress passed a 30-1.99407ender quota law in 2002.

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