CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Gasparian, Paula |
|---|---|
| Title | Women in Post-Soviet Parliaments: an Intra-Regional Comparison |
| Summary | The post-Soviet space presents a peculiar case of women’s representation in national parliaments, where authoritarian governments tend to have more women in parliament than democratic ones and classical institutional measures, such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, fail to substantially advance women in the region. This thesis seeks to explain this puzzle by assessing the explanatory power of classical variables for women’s parliamentary representation with regard to Soviet successor states. It conducts an intra-regional comparison, which allows it to combine the region’s specific post-communist and post-Soviet circumstances and comparative analysis in order to gain better insight into the variation of women in the countries’ parliaments. The findings suggest that socioeconomic variables, such as participation in labor and educational attainment as well as cultural variables, namely attitudes towards women in leadership roles, tend to be much more successful in explaining the proportion of women in post-Soviet parliaments than classical institutional explanations mentioned above. Moreover, they create an environment that is crucial for institutional measures to work as expected. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/gasparian_paula.pdf |
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