Women's Electoral Success and Female Voter Turnout: Evidence From Individual Voting Data for Germany.
This paper brings individual‐level evidence to the hypothesis that women holding political offices, that is, descriptive representation, affects the participation of women in politics. Specifically, using a regression discontinuity design, we analyze the role of close victories of directly elected f...
| Published in: | Kyklos Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 960 - 977 |
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