Women's Representation and Electoral System Reform in Papua New Guinea: The Limitations of Limited Preferential Voting

dc.contributor.authorBaker, Kerryn
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-15T00:17:21Z
dc.date.available2020-01-15T00:17:21Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:20:28Z
dc.description.abstractPapua New Guinea moved to a limited preferential voting (LPV) system prior to the 2007 national election. The shift from first‐past‐the‐post to preferential voting was intended to encourage the election of candidates with broader mandates from constituents; to reverse the trend of increasing election‐related violence; and to lead to more cooperation between candidates and voting blocs. It was also anticipated that instituting a preferential system would increase the electoral chances of female candidates. This article looks at the impact of the LPV system on women's participation and performances as candidates in Papua New Guinean elections since 2002, focusing in particular on the three general elections in 2007, 2012 and 2017. It argues that the benefits of LPV have not outweighed its costs, at least in terms of women's participation and representation. This demonstrates the limits of institutional reform of this nature in tackling deep‐seated issues relating to political culture.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipSome of this research were carried out while the author was a member of the ANU-SSGM Domestic Observation Mission for the 2017 Papua New Guinea general elections, which was funded in partnership with the Australian Aid Program.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2050-2680en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/197409
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenance© 2018 The Authors. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd and Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.en_AU
dc.publisherWileyen_AU
dc.rights© 2018 The Authors.en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceAsia & The Pacific Policy Studiesen_AU
dc.titleWomen's Representation and Electoral System Reform in Papua New Guinea: The Limitations of Limited Preferential Votingen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage219en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage208en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBaker, Kerryn, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBaker, Kerryn, u4966521en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160606 - Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacificen_AU
local.identifier.absseo940202 - Electoral Systemsen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB10356en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume5en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1002/app5.235en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85047907146
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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