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The Rise of Women Vice-Presidential Candidates in Latin America
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The literature on vice presidencies fails to explain the women’s inclusion as vice-presidential candidates; as the strategies of ticket balancing predict a higher number of female running mates than what is observed. Based on theories of gender representation; this study develops hypotheses about the inclusion of women as vice-presidential candidates and tests them using an original dataset comprising 471 presidential tickets from Latin America (1978–2022); a region where women’s representation has expanded. The analysis reveals that small and left-wing parties nominate more women as vice presidents than major and right-wing parties. Although female vice-presidential candidates tend to have less political experience than their male presidential counterparts; they often add a diverse and complementary policy expertise to the ticket. The findings underscore that women’s inclusion as vice-presidential candidates depends mostly on partisan calculations; since gender quotas rarely apply to the vice presidency.
Keywords:
vice presidency
women
political parties
gender quotas
representation