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Item Chile’s Gender Quota: Will It Work?Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyItem Does the Presence of Women in Politics Reduce Corruption in Latin America?Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyCorruption has become one of the most important political challenges for Latin American governments in recent years. Is the presence of women in politics a solution to corruption problems? Research from the early 2000s on women’s representation in parliaments and corruption levels from countries around the world suggests that the answer to this question is “yes.” However, analysis of the relationship between women in government and corruption in Latin America shows that the answer is “not yet.” Greater presence of women in Latin American governments has the potential to reduce corruption but only when combined with institutional improvements to the quality of democracy and electoral accountability in the region.Item Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation(2020-12-04) Mayes, Carly; Schwindt-Bayer, LeslieThe 2018 midterm elections proved to be a banner year for female candidates. The record-setting number of women on the ballot translated into a new high-water mark for the descriptive representation of women in Congress. While it is clear that female candidates were more successful in getting on the ballot during this election cycle than ever before, what remains unclear is how voters perceived the diverse traits these candidates brought to their campaigns and how those traits impacted voter evaluations. In this dissertation, I build on the existing literature on gender stereotypes and white female candidates to explore this question.Item Increasing the Number of Women in Latin American PoliticsSchwindt-Bayer, Leslie; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicyItem Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality(Cambridge University Press, 2023) Powell, Eleanor Neff; Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie; Sin, GiselaRepresentation of women in the field of legislative politics is remarkably small and the absence of women has wide-ranging ramifications. In Fall 2019, we surveyed 361 women that we identified as studying legislative politics within political science to understand why women’s representation in legislative studies is so low and what we can do about it. We found that many women study legislatures, but they do not always identify as scholars of legislative studies, often do not join the Legislative Studies Section, and tend to prioritize other journals over Legislative Studies Quarterly, the official journal of the section. In this article, we discuss several solutions to the problem of women’s underrepresentation in legislative studies, including the new Women in Legislative Studies initiative.