Replication Data for: Women’s Political Representation in African Rebel Parties

Across Africa, women’s political representation is nearly twice as high in post-conflict states than it is in non-conflict afflicted states (Hughes and Tripp 2015). Scholars have attributed these increases to changing gender norms, international pressure, and local women’s movements. However, these factors do not explain variance in women’s representation across political parties. This paper seeks to understand how the conflict legacies of political parties influence these trends by analyzing pa terns of women’s political representation in rebel groups that transition into political parties. The paper argues that these parties have unique incentives to promote the representation of women. Novel data on women’s candidacy and electoral success at the party-level in post-conflict Africa from 1970-2020 are presented. Findings sug- gest that rebel parties run and elect significantly more women than other political parties. These results are consistent among a number of contexts, including varying conflict outcomes. Further, findings demonstrate that in instances of ongoing violence, women’s political representation generally falters, suggesting that these political strategies are only effective during peace time. These findings are relevant to understanding women’s post-conflict political representation, as well as the role of women in former rebel parties.

整个非洲范围内，冲突后国家的女性政治代表性几乎是受冲突影响的非冲突国家的两倍（Hughes与Tripp，2015）。学界将这一增长归因于性别规范的转变、国际社会的施压以及本土妇女运动的推动。然而，上述因素无法解释不同政党间女性政治代表性的差异。本文旨在通过分析转型为政党的反叛团体中女性政治代表性的分布模式，探究政党的冲突遗留效应如何影响上述趋势。本文提出，这类政党拥有推动女性参政的独特动机。本文呈现了1970年至2020年间非洲冲突后国家政党层面的女性候选人参选及选举获胜的全新数据集。研究结果表明，反叛衍生政党推出及当选的女性候选人数量显著多于其他政党。这一结论在多种情境下均成立，包括不同的冲突结局类型。此外，研究结果显示，在暴力持续存在的情境中，女性政治代表性通常会出现下滑，这表明此类政治策略仅在和平时期有效。上述研究结果有助于深入理解冲突后女性的政治代表性问题，以及女性在前反叛政党中的角色。