Elections, Parties, and Representation in Non-Western Democracies

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together a set of papers from across contexts studying democratic processes such as political representation and politician behavior. The papers focus on key democracies in the non-western world covering South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

Allie and Verma study how higher level politicians affected the representation of marginalized groups in local politics in India. Novaes and Tuñón examine how regime change in 1960s Brazil influenced the trajectories of legacy politicians. Choi and Shen-Bayh investigate how democratic backsliding influences legislative behavior in Zambia. Karekurve Ramachandra, Singh, and Stommes study how electoral rules to prevent non-serious candidates in India can have unintended negative consequences for the political candidacy of women.

Sub Unit

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• Top-Down Representation: How State Politicians Impact Local Elections in India - Feyaad Allie, Harvard University; Rahul Verma, University of California, Berkeley

• The Autocracy Bandwagon: Legacy Politicians and Authoritarian Consolidation - Guadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University; Lucas M. Novaes, Insper

• Democratic Backsliding on the Legislative Floor: Evidence from Zambia - Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University; Fiona Shen-Bayh, University of Maryland, College Park

• The Limits of Electoral Gender Quotas - Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra, Stanford Univeristy; Gaurav Sood

Chair

• Claire Leslie Adida UCSD

Discussants

• Kimuli Kasara Columbia University

• Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro Brown University