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The aim of this chapter is to analyze why and how Serbia has succeeded in increasing women’s parliamentary representation, with a focus on the implementation and effectiveness of legislative gender quotas over the past two decades. The first two sections are dedicated to Serbian quota regulations and how they are implemented by different parties. These sections also provide an overview of women’s representation in parliamentary life over the past two decades. The third section highlights the influence of contextual factors on quota regulations and their administration. The question remains whether or not the descriptive representation, embodied in the growing number of women MPs, has been accompanied by substantive representation based on true recognition, implementation and protection of women’s interests. The larger share of women MPs did trigger a sustainable large presence of women in politics, but falls short of facilitating the mainstreaming of gender equality. We still have a long way to go.
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Čičkarić, L. (2023). Legislative Quotas and Political Representation in Serbia. In: Lang, S., Meier, P., Sauer, B. (eds) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas. Gender and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2_16
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