Twenty Years of Parité Under the Microscope in France: Parties Play with Rather Than by the Rules

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2 décembre 2022

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Catherine Achin et al., « Twenty Years of Parité Under the Microscope in France: Parties Play with Rather Than by the Rules », Archive ouverte de Sciences Po (SPIRE), ID : 10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2_11


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This chapter tells the story of the implementation and impact of the French approach to a 50:50 gender quota, parité, applied to all elections, since it was codified in an amendment to the Constitution in 1999. The multi-level analysis shows that despite the significant variation in electoral rules and political dynamics in different electoral contests the numerical representation of women has steadily increased since 1999, although to varying degrees across elections and that gatekeepers have accepted parity as a principle through a new “parity grammar” with both of these developments suggesting that the entrenched dominant gender order may very well be in the process of crumbling. The analysis also demonstrates that political parties still remain important roadblocks to achieving real parity and quality representation—playing with the new parity rules instead of by them; thus, meaningful gender transformation in the political realm has yet to be achieved.

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