Women's Representation and Electoral System Reform in Papua New Guinea: The Limitations of Limited Preferential Voting
dc.contributor.author | Baker, Kerryn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-15T00:17:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-15T00:17:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.date.updated | 2019-11-25T07:20:28Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Papua 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.sponsorship | Some 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.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 2050-2680 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/197409 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_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.publisher | Wiley | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Authors. | en_AU |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License | en_AU |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_AU |
dc.source | Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies | en_AU |
dc.title | Women's Representation and Electoral System Reform in Papua New Guinea: The Limitations of Limited Preferential Voting | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 219 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 208 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Baker, Kerryn, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | repository.admin@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Baker, Kerryn, u4966521 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 160606 - Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 940202 - Electoral Systems | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB10356 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 5 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1002/app5.235 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85047907146 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | a383154 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | https://www.wiley.com/en-gb | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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