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Krook, Mona Lena. "Gender and Political Institutions: Implementing Quotas for Women in Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210579_index.html>

Krook, M. , 2007-08-30 "Gender and Political Institutions: Implementing Quotas for Women in Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210579_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Women form a small minority of all political representatives worldwide, but in recent years, political parties and legislatures in a growing number of countries have adopted various kinds of quota policies aimed at increasing the proportion of women in political office. To date, most research on these measures has focused on features of these reforms and reasons for their adoption in diverse countries around the globe. Given the relative newness of this phenomenon, much less research has addressed quota implementation, despite the fact that � as a group � quota policies have not resulted in uniform increases in the numbers of women elected worldwide. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper surveys existing explanations for variations in quota implementation and then draws on these to theorize three broad sets of factors � structures, practices, and norms � that together play a role in shaping quota impact. To model how quota adoption affects existing dynamics of political recruitment, the paper (1) develops an alternative perspective on candidate selection based on configurations of three categories of gendered institutions, (2) proposes that the three types of quotas � reserved seats, party quotas, and legislative quotas � reform different kinds of political institutions, and (3) illustrates through three sets of paired comparisons how quotas affect existing institutional configurations such that some policies are more successful than others in altering women�s access to political office.

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