The global spread of gender quotas is a major institutional development.
Key Finding: Survey experiments show audiences rated autocracies higher on democracy scales when women's descriptive representation was greater. They were also more supportive of providing foreign aid to these countries.
Reputation Boosts
- Audiences' Perception
- Countries adopting gender quotas are often electoral autocracies with stark gender inequalities.
- Survey respondents rated autocracies higher on democracy scales when women's descriptive representation was greater.
- Audiences were more supportive of providing foreign aid to these countries.
