CORNELIA · Local female politicians and their impact on corruption scandals and other crimes
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 212 934 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MSCA-IF
Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.
Накратко на български
Присъствието на жени в местната политика в Италия и САЩ се анализира през призмата на корупцията и медийното отразяване. Това помага да се разбере как полът и квотите за представителство влияят върху нивата на престъпност в институциите.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Local female politicians and their impact on corruption scandals and other crimes
This project's aim was to investigate the effect of local female politicians and their impact on corruption scandals and other crimes in Italy and in the USA. Specifically, it had three main objectives: to investigate the effect of female local politicians on crime, to investigate possible disparities in media coverage between female and male politicians and to investigate the effects of gender quotas on corruption and crimes. Female political representation and the effects of a higher number of women in (political) institutions are relevant topics in the political and in the academic debate. However, the existing literature has many gaps and this project aimed to overcome some of them. The action faced some major issues, especially in the data collection phase and related to COVID-19. However, I implemented mitigating strategy to implement my action, using slightly different data. Overall, this project has generated three strong discussion papers over two different countries (Italy and USA) exploring the complicated relationship between politics, gender and crime from three different angles. Moreover, the analysis and tables of the investigations that I did not manage to transform in articles are still in my possession and they would be the bedrock for my future research.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Globally less than a quarter of national parliamentarians are women (UN Women). Meanwhile corruption, in its various forms, persists and Globally less than a quarter of national parliamentarians are women (UN Women). Meanwhile corruption, in its various forms, persists and seems only weakly constrained by democracy. Existing studies evaluate the impact of female politicians on policies decisions and comparison between the decisions of female and male politicians.Filling the gaps in the literature, CORNELIA (CORruption aNd fEmale poLItical pArticipation) will investigate the impact of female politicians on corruption scandals at municipal level and other crimes and the possible differences in media coverage between female and male politicians involved in these scandals. More specifically, it will investigate the following research questions: 1) examine the impact of female politicians on the amount of corruption and scandals, taking advantage of close mixed gender races in Italy and the US; 2) develop measures of the media coverage of corruption scandals and examine whether coverage differs for female and male politicians in Italy and US, and furthermore whether this coverage ameliorates corruption differently; 3) examine the impact of gender quotas on candidates’ lists on the level of corruption and scandals, taking advantage of the gender quotas introduction/abolition at local level in Italy.The research question will be answered using a novel dataset for two different developed countries:1) Italian local data from 1993 to 2019 covering local elections and administrations, corruption and new measures describing media coverage of corruption scandals at the local level, developed by the project; 2) US state level data from 1976 to 2019 covering state level elections and administrations for the 52 States, combined with data on female representation in state governments with corruption data and information on the media coverage of state-level corruption scandals.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK · YORK NORTH YORKSHIREКоординаторОбединеното кралство
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз