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Replication Data for: Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America

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Title Replication Data for: Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZEKFG7
 
Creator Arana, Ignacio
Hughes, Melanie M.
Pérez-Liñán, Aníbal
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Can weak judicial institutions facilitate the advancement of women to the high courts? We explore the relationship between weak institutions and gender diversification by analyzing the consequences of judicial reshuffles in Latin America. Our theory predicts that institutional disruptions will facilitate the appointment of women justices, but only when left parties control the nomination process. We test this argument using difference-in-differences and dynamic panel models for 18 Latin American countries between 1961 and 2014. The analysis offers support for our hypothesis, but gains in gender diversification are modest in size and hard to sustain over time. Political reshuffles may produce short-term advances for women in the judiciary, but do not represent a path to substantive progress in gender equality.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Gender politics
High courts
Judicial reshuffles
Latin America
 
Contributor Arana, Ignacio
 
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