Abstract
Bjarnegård, Yoon, and Zetterberg’s chapter examines whether electoral gender quotas reduce or reproduce corruption. The chapter suggests that quotas may reduce corruption only if they provide a clean slate, i.e., if quota candidates are recruited from new networks and are given their own mandate to act on a range of issues once in parliament. However, quotas are likely to instead reproduce corruption if quota candidates are recruited from existing networks and are expected to protect an already corrupt party line. The authors apply the theoretical framework to an empirical case—Tanzania—and suggest that the latter scenario is most likely in stable electoral authoritarian regimes.
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The data were collected from National Electoral Commission (2015).
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Mi Yung Yoon’s interview with Susan Kiwanga, first-term CHADEMA special-seat MP, Dodoma, June 5, 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Dr. Wilbrod Slaa, the then Secretary General of CHADEMA, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Nuru Awadh Bafadhil, Executive Secretary of CUF Women’s Wing, and with members of a local CUF women’s wing November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with representatives of the CCM women’s wing, the UWT , November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with representatives of the CCM women’s wing, the UWT , November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Dr. Slaa, then Secretary General of CHADEMA, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Nuru Awadh Bafadhil, Executive Secretary of CUF Women’s Wing, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Muhamed Mkandu, Ward Secretary CUF, November 2013.
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Mi Yung Yoon’s interviews with MPs, Dodoma, June 2013.
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Mi Yung Yoon’s interview with Rita Mlaki, then a female constituency MP, Dodoma, June 2008. She is currently a special-seat MP representing NGOs.
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Mi Yung Yoon’s interview with Anne Makinda, then the Deputy Speaker, Dodoma, June 2008.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with CUF male MPs, November 2013. Yoon’s interviews with male MPs over time.
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Pius Msekwa was the speaker of Tanzania from 1994 to 2005.
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Mi Yung Yoon’s interview with Slaa, then the Secretary General of CHADEMA, Dodoma, 19 June 2008; Mi Yung Yoon’s interview with Fatima Maghimbi, a CUF female constituency MP in the 2005–2010 parliament, Dodoma, June 2014. She was the only female constituency MP from the opposition.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Suzan Lyimo, Secretary General of BAWACHA and Naiomi Kaihula, CHADEMA special-seat MP, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Dr. Slaa, the then Secretary General of CHADEMA, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s interview with Suzan Lyimo, Secretary General of BAWACHA and Naiomi Kaihula, CHADEMA special-seat MP, November 2013.
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Bjarnegård, E., Yoon, M.Y., Zetterberg, P. (2018). Gender Quotas and the Re(pro)duction of Corruption. In: Stensöta, H., Wängnerud, L. (eds) Gender and Corruption. Political Corruption and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70929-1_6
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