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IMAGE: Predicted probabilities of winning a mixed-gender contest across gender and type of selection method. view more
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A study by two researchers at the UPF Department of Political and Social Sciences (DCPIS) has examined the effect of selecting party leaders by direct vote by the entire membership (a process known in southern Europe as primaries and in English-speaking countries as one-member-one -vote , OMOV) on the likelihood of a woman winning a leadership competition against male rivals.
Javier Astudillo and Andreu Paneque, a tenured lecturer and PhD with the DCPIS, respectively, and members of the Institutions and Political Actors Research Group, are the authors of the article published recently in the journal Party Politics: Our statistical analysis shows that controlling for other influential factors , while the probability of a male candidate winning hardly varies according to the type of selection method, in the case of a female cand