Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden by Torsten Persson, Timothy Besley, Johanna Rickne, Olle Folke
Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Torsten Persson, Timothy Besley, Johanna Rickne, Olle Folke

Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Torsten Persson, Timothy Besley, Johanna Rickne, Olle Folke

49 pages first pub 2017 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction gender politics

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We develop a model where party leaders choose the competence of politicians on the ballot to trade off electoral success against their own survival. The predicted correlation between the competence of party leaders and followers is strongly suppor...

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