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Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor
Paulo Arvate, Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821201700020001
We explore an electoral quasi-experiment where a woman nearly won or lost to a man in a mayoral election. Our data combines municipal Brazilian election results, which occur every four years, with municipal level votes for female and male candidates in state and federal deputy elections, whose districts are larger than the municipalities. Our results show that when voters are exposed to a female leader, the relative number of votes given to female candidates increases. This result depends on the […]
Keywords: Brazil; electoral behavior; electoral quasi-experiment; female political participation; Mayor election