Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

By Rikhil R Bhavnani. American Political Science Review, 2009

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Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies (2011, background): “Corroborative evidence comes from Bhavnani (2009) who examined similar questions in an urban setting – municipal councillor elections in Mumbai.”
Can Gender Quotas Break Down Negative Stereotypes? Evidence From Changes In Electoral Rules (2010, methodology): “Bhavnani (2009), using data from Mumbai, finds that reservations largely work by introducing in politics a group of female candidates who are able to run for and win elections even after reservations lapse, and by allowing parties to learn that women can win elections.”
Can Descriptive Representation Change Beliefs about a Stigmatized Group? Evidence from Rural India (2014, background): “…pp. 1372; Krishna 2003; Pai 2002; Weiner 2001), and in line with recent contributions about the transformative impact of gender quotas in the country (Bhavnani 2009; Beaman et al. 2009; Iyer et al. 2011), this article provides innovative quantitative evidence suggesting that ethnic quotas matter…”