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- Title
FRAUEN IN KOMMUNALPOLITISCHEN ÄMTERN UND IHR EINFLUSS AUF DIE WAHLBETEILIGUNG BEI GEMEINDERATSWAHLEN.
- Authors
Stocker, Simon
- Abstract
Women are still underrepresented in top political positions at the federal and Land levels in Germany. However, reliable information on the actual extent of this representation gap is not available for all political levels. In some cases, information on the gender of politically active people is not recorded systematically at the local level. This article first introduces an automated approach to collect data on the gender of mayors, using automated Google searches and web scraping. It then explores to what extent the presence of women in political leadership positions at the local level has a positive impact on voter turnout in municipal council elections.
- Subjects
GERMANY; WOMEN leaders; VOTER turnout; CITY councils; LOCAL elections; INTERNET searching
- Publication
WISTA Wirtschaft und Statistik, 2024, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
0043-6143
- Publication type
Article