Quotas and electoral performance: what is the best combination?

• Grant number: 12/13649-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Business Administration
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Roberto Arvate
• Grantee: Paulo Roberto Arvate
• Host Investigator: José Tavares
• Host Institution: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

The main target of this work is calculated the optimal level of women mayor candidates for women have a higher electoral chance. This kind of investigation is important because several works on political science and economics shows that quota is important to increase the electoral chance for women. However, these works does not investigate what is this optimal level before to fix the quota. (AU)