Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics?
研究了德国地方选举中，女性市长当选后，女性议会候选人是否获得更多优先选票，发现女性候选人排名提升，且效应扩散至邻近市镇。
Women remain underrepresented in politics and it remains unclear how this might change. In this paper, we investigate whether female council candidates receive more preferential votes when a female mayor has been recently elected into office. We hand collect data for 109,017 candidates in four open-list local council elections (2001–2016) in all 426 municipalities of a German state. Based on RDD estimations for close mixed-gender races, we show that female council candidates advance more from their initial list rank when the mayor is female. This effect spreads to neighboring municipalities and leads to a rising share of female council members.