Arbeitspapier
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non-incumbent candidates. Female candidates are 4 to 5 percentage points less likely than male candidates to run again conditional on previous candidacy. Studying mechanisms, we find that women are likely held back by incompatibilities between family obligations and political duties as well as a culture of male dominance in local politics.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14981
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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gender
political selection
persistence
local councils
candidacy
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Baskaran, Thushyanthan
Hessami, Zohal
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baskaran, Thushyanthan
- Hessami, Zohal
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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