Electoral Competitiveness of Women Candidates in the 21st General Election

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-31
Author(s):  
Minkyung Park ◽  
Sangjoon Ka
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Electoral Competitiveness

The Role of Mass Media in Women's Participation in 2013 Kenya General Election

2016 ◽  
pp. 250-270
Author(s):  
Thomas Ibrahim Okinda
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Free Media

This chapter assesses the role and performance of the Kenyan media in women's participation in 2013 Kenya general election with particular emphasis on radio, television and newspapers. Kenya has a diverse, vibrant and largely free media whose coverage of the election was useful in informing, educating and mobilizing women to vote. However, limited and biased media coverage of women candidates, inadequate civic and voter education may have inhibited women's electoral participation as few women contested and won electoral seats in the 2013 Kenyan polls. Therefore, the media should enhance the visibility of women, political rights and issues of women as the country endeavours to enhance gender equality in political representation. To achieve this, the media should partner with women, the electoral body, government, political parties and other stakeholders in Kenya in order to improve women's media coverage and political participation.

The Role of Mass Media in Women's Participation in 2013 Kenya General Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 528-548
Author(s):  
Thomas Ibrahim Okinda
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Free Media

This chapter assesses the role and performance of the Kenyan media in women's participation in 2013 Kenya general election with particular emphasis on radio, television and newspapers. Kenya has a diverse, vibrant and largely free media whose coverage of the election was useful in informing, educating and mobilizing women to vote. However, limited and biased media coverage of women candidates, inadequate civic and voter education may have inhibited women's electoral participation as few women contested and won electoral seats in the 2013 Kenyan polls. Therefore, the media should enhance the visibility of women, political rights and issues of women as the country endeavours to enhance gender equality in political representation. To achieve this, the media should partner with women, the electoral body, government, political parties and other stakeholders in Kenya in order to improve women's media coverage and political participation.

Women Candidates in the 1983 General Election

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Vallance
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Women Candidates

WOMEN CANDIDATES IN THE 1983 GENERAL ELECTION

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Vallance
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Women Candidates

The Effect of Physical Education Promises on Electoral Competitiveness for the 18th General Election

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
나동규 ◽  
Beomsig Kim ◽  
김주희 ◽  
Ruji Lee ◽  
남미경
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
General Election ◽  
Electoral Competitiveness

scholarly journals Why Aren't There More Republican Women in Congress? Gender, Partisanship, and Fundraising Support in the 2010 and 2012 Elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 648-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin E. Kitchens ◽  
Michele L. Swers
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Candidate Quality

Research indicates that fundraising is not an impediment to women candidates because women raise just as much money as men after accounting for seat status. However, previous research focuses solely on general election candidates. By examining both primary and general election candidates, we find both gender and partisan differences in fundraising. While incumbency, competitiveness, and candidate quality predict fundraising in the general election, we show that Democratic women raise more money than their male counterparts in the primary election. However, Republican women do not enjoy greater fundraising success compared with their male counterparts, and in limited cases, being a Republican woman can be an obstacle to fundraising in the primary election.

Women Candidates for Parliament: Transforming the Agenda?

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Norris ◽  
Joni Lovenduski
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Using Data

Why should more women be elected to positions of power in Britain? What difference would it make? This Note aims to examine these questions using data from a survey of almost six hundred men and women candidates to the British Parliament in the 1987 general election. There are two major arguments for increasing women's representation.

scholarly journals Where are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shazia Usman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Total Population ◽  
General Election ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Media

This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election. After analysing the data collected quantitatively, it can be concluded that female election candidates and females in general were virtually invisible in both the newspapers during the selected time period. The few articles published on or quoting women were mostly clichéd, lacked critical analysis and stereotyped them.  An unexpected but equally important finding of the research sheds some light on the why of female election candidates’ invisibility in the dailies during election. The data shows the extensive prominence Fiji’s print media gave to race and coup-related issues as elections drew near, crowding out reportage of other major issues. Because of the fixation on race, the media overlooked many important issues, such as the fact that in all elections since independence, women have only managed to secure fewer than 12 percent of parliamentary seats, even though they make-up nearly half of the total population of the country. Such debates are rarely raised in the media.

scholarly journals Participation and Performance of Women Candidates in the General Elections of India: An Analytical Study (1951-2009)

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 128-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Pandita
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
State Level ◽  
General Election ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Female Candidate ◽  
Coalition Politics ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Election Commission

Participation of women in the electoral process of India as contestants has been very abysmal since the inception of the electoral process of the country. Present study has been conceived in view of the demands raised by various political parties and different women organizations about introducing and passing of women’s reservation bill in the parliament so as to secure at least 33 % seats for women candidates across the country. In the present study attempt has been made to see how far women candidates have been given representation by national and state level political parties during all the general elections held in India since independence. The other areas covered in the study include the distribution of political parties during all the general elections held, female candidate fielded by parties in proportion to male candidates, their success rate, votes secured, forfeited deposits etc. the study is purely based on secondary data, retrieved from the official website of the Election Commission of India on October 21, 2013. The multiparty system in India has somewhere become the areas of concern, which in fact has heralded an era of coalition politics in country, where the number has grown exponentially and as of now more than 2000 political parties stand registered with the Election commission of India. On average mere 6.90 % women candidates have been chosen to parliament during each general election, while as on average 4.49 % women contestants have been fielded in each general election. Scenario of state political parties is more worrisome and in case of independent contestants the situation is quite displeasing.

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