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For more than 20 years, gender quotas have been adopted and revised in Latin America and the world. This chapter investigates whether the type of authorship of gender quota adoptions/revisions is relevant to the strength of policy designs. The debate is unsettled: while some scholars portray male incumbents as interest-seeking actors, others view state actors as promoters of gender equality. Using a newly developed index of the strength of gender quota designs, I find support for the proposition that non-legislative actors are crucial in strengthening quota policies. I find that policy revisions carried out by non-legislative actors are, on average, stronger than those enacted by legislative actors, and that non-legislative actors respond more rapidly to policy weaknesses than their legislative counterparts.
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Gatto, M.A.C. (2017). Gender Quotas, Legislative Resistance and Non-Legislative Reform. In: Fortes, P., Boratti, L., Palacios Lleras, A., Gerald Daly, T. (eds) Law and Policy in Latin America. St Antony's Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56694-2_14
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