International Seminar organized by the Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Póst Graduate Program in Political Science/USP  brings Professor Adam Przeworski

On March 10th, from 6 pm, in Cidade Universitária will be held a presentation of Adam Przeworski, professor of the Chair Carroll and Milton Petrie European Studies and Politics and Economics at New York University. 

The paper presentation is already available -  Partisan Logic of Women's Suffrage, by Adam Przeworski, Kong Joo Shin, and Tianyang Xi.

Abstract

Women voted at rates lower than men in all the Örst elections that followed their enfranchisement before 1945. This observation may seem innocuous but it suggests something important about the reasons suffrage was extended to women, specifically, that these extensions may not have enjoyed widespread support among women themselves. This fact is consistent, in turn, with an explanation in which suffrage was strategically extended by male party leaders in pursuit of their electoral goals. We develop a model which implies that male politicians extend suffrage and women to vote at low rates when party leaders believe that (i) the support for their suffrage among women for suffrage is not too low and (ii) this support is concentrated among the partisan opponents of the extending party. The Örst point is banal but the second, we believe, is novel.

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