Women and politics in Ireland: The road to sex quotas

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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Fiona
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-04T06:39:34Z
dc.date.available2020-06-04T06:39:34Z
dc.date.issued41527
dc.description.abstractThis article tells the story of how and why legislative candidate sex quotas, more commonly known as gender quotas, were adopted by the Irish Parliament in July 2012. In so doing, it reviews both internal party equality strategies and external party influences. Tracing party data over a two decade period, the article shows that parties have adopted a range of strategies, in line with their ideological orientation, to address women’s political under-representation. For the most part however, these strategies have been rhetorical and promotional in nature, and have not resulted in significant gains for women in electoral politics. To understand how support for gender quotas was secured, Krook’s (2007) analytical framework for the adoption of gender quotas is employed, and the conditions favouring the introduction of quotas in the Republic of Ireland are identified. The article finds that the coming together of a constellation of pressures, notably a political reform discourse, the mobilisation of civic society groups, and elite support, facilitated the adoption of legislative candidate sex quotas in 2012, a legislative outcome that could not have been predicted some years earlier.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBuckley, F. (2013) ‘Women and politics in Ireland: The road to sex quotas’, Irish Political Studies, 28(3), pp. 341-359, doi: 10.1080/07907184.2013.818537en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07907184.2013.818537en
dc.identifier.eissn1743-9078
dc.identifier.endpage359en
dc.identifier.issn0790-7184
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Political Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage341en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10123
dc.identifier.volume28en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights© 2013, Political Studies Association of Ireland. Published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an item published by Taylor & Francis in Irish Political Studies on 10 September 2013, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2013.818537. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectGender quotasen
dc.subjectPolitical reformen
dc.subjectEqualityen
dc.subjectPartiesen
dc.titleWomen and politics in Ireland: The road to sex quotasen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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