Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond

Adriana Piatti-Crocker is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Springfield and is a comparative politics scholar who focuses on Latin America and gender politics. Piatti-Crocker is currently working on material for a book on the descriptive and substantive effects of gender quotas in Argentina and its provinces. Her previous publications include an article in Cena Internacional (2007), a Pew Case Study (2008), with Daniel Kempton, from the Institute of the Study of Diplomacy, and Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas (2010), coedited with Jason Pierceson and Shawn Schulenberg.

• Contents: Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Introduction – Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Jumping on the Bandwagon: Explaining Innovation and Diffusion of Gender Quota Laws in Latin America – Nélida Archenti/María Inés Tula: Candidate Selection as Political Barriers for Gender Quotas: The Case of Argentina at Subnational Levels – Jennifer M. Piscopo: Gender Quotas and Equity Promotion in Mexico – Pär Zetterberg: The Diffusion of Sub-National Gender Quotas in Mexico and Their Impacts – Clara Araújo/José Eustáquio Diniz Alves: Participation of Women in the Elections of 2002, 2006 and 2010: The Quota Policy and the Brazilian Electoral System – Gregory D. Schmidt: Gender Quotas in Peru: Origins, Interactions with Electoral Rules, and Re-Election – Ana Isabel García Quesada: From Temporary Measures to the Parity Principle: The Case of Costa Rica – Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco: Women’s Quotas in the Dominican Republic: Advances and Detractions – Niki Johnson/Verónica Pérez: From Vanguard to Straggler: Women’s Political Representation and Gender Quotas in Uruguay – Laman Tasch: Legislative Gender Quotas in Former Communist and Post-Conflict Societies: The Cases of Armenia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, and Serbia – Adriana Piatti-Crocker: Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond: Advances and Setbacks in the last two decades.