Replication Data for: Direct Democracy and Women's Political Engagement
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'What are the conditions that promote gender equality in political participation? In this paper, I propose that the presence of direct democracy expands the gender equality in political participation by signaling the system's openness to women's voice, confirming their political competency, and highlighting their stake in political decisions. To test this argument, I leverage a quasi-experiment in Sweden in the aftermath of the introduction of universal suffrage, where the type of municipal political institutions was determined by a population threshold.  My findings lend strong support to the effect of direct democracy on political inclusion of women. I find that the gender gap in electoral participation was smaller in municipalities using direct democracy than in similarly-sized municipalities that only had representative institutions' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Direct democracy","Gender","Political participation","Politics and government"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'What are the conditions that promote gender equality in political participation? In this paper, I propose that the presence of direct democracy expands the gender equality in political participation by signaling the system's openness to women's voice, confirming their political competency, and highlighting their stake in political decisions. To test this argument, I leverage a quasi-experiment in Sweden in the aftermath of the introduction of universal suffrage, where the type of municipal political institutions was determined by a population threshold.  My findings lend strong support to the effect of direct democracy on political inclusion of women. I find that the gender gap in electoral participation was smaller in municipalities using direct democracy than in similarly-sized municipalities that only had representative institutions' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
What are the conditions that promote gender equality in political participation? In this paper, I propose that the presence of direct democracy expands the gender equality in political participation by signaling the system's openness to women's voice, confirming their political competency, and highlighting their stake in political decisions. To test this argument, I leverage a quasi-experiment in Sweden in the aftermath of the introduction of universal suffrage, where the type of municipal political institutions was determined by a population threshold.  My findings lend strong support to the effect of direct democracy on political inclusion of women. I find that the gender gap in electoral participation was smaller in municipalities using direct democracy than in similarly-sized municipalities that only had representative institutions
Direct democracy; Gender; Political participation; Politics and government