November 6, 2024 | Noon to 1:00 PM EST
Jóhanna Birnir, University of Maryland
Do voter patriarchal and religious preferences differentially condition support for female and male candidates in elections characterized by kinship and money politics? This paper juxtaposes theories of party support, as influenced by gender quota, and voter patriarchal and religious preferences, in the context of gendered resource inequity, to examine the effect on the election of women. Using new data on nearly 10K candidates running for the Indonesian legislative election in 2024, our analysis shows that while voter penalties and resource inequities are undoubtedly important, parties can effectively counteract these with strong list placement of female candidates. Our results also highlight the importance for women’s representation, of the interaction between party system fragmentation and list position as conditioned by candidate quotas, and the pivotal influences on representation of seemingly minor adjustments to quota calculations.