The impact of gender quotas on progressive ambition for cabinet

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dc.check.chapterOfThesisAll for three years.en
dc.check.date2029-12-31
dc.contributor.advisorBuckley, Fiona
dc.contributor.advisorWeeks, Liam
dc.contributor.advisorexternalGalligan, Yvonneen
dc.contributor.authorGregory, Rachelen
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T09:39:12Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T09:39:12Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.submitted2023en
dc.description.abstractAlthough the number of women in legislative office has endured continued growth, the number of women in executive offices, especially cabinet, has remained stagnant. While some scholars pose that women lack the political ambition to put themselves up for a particular political office, other scholars point to the complex and gendered role of candidate selection as inhibiting women’s political career progression. I argue that women’s ambition for cabinet is based upon their evaluations of changes in the political opportunity structures due to spill over effects from gender quotas. Utilising an original dataset comprised of observed variables and a small survey of UK MPs, this research compares the ambition of women in the Conservative and Labour parties in the UK House of Commons with and without gender quotas. Findings show that gender quotas signal to women a more open political opportunity structure, but this effect is largely limited to gender quota women. At the same time, gender quota women are primarily chosen for low prestige cabinet posts, which suggests a mediating variable of masculine party culture in determining outcomes and a lack of institutionalisation of the quota.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationGregory, R. 2023. The impact of gender quotas on progressive ambition for cabinet. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage323en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16426
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2023, Rachel Gregory.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectPolitical ambitionen
dc.subjectPolitical behaviouren
dc.subjectQuantitative methodsen
dc.subjectGender quotasen
dc.subjectGender and politicsen
dc.subjectUK politicsen
dc.titleThe impact of gender quotas on progressive ambition for cabineten
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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