Difference in Development Priorities of Male versus Female Politicians

Difference in Development Priorities of Male versus Female Politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a study funded by the USAID Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) Center, specifically the Elections and Political Processes (EPP) Fund. It is currently conducted by MEASURE-BiH to expand the knowledge base to understand gender differences in development priorities in BiH and provide empirical evidence to advance women's and men’s equal participation in decision-making.

Motivated by two constraints unarguably present in the BiH society:

Women’s under representation in political processes despite quotas; and
Indications of gender gap in politicians’ influence over development priorities within parties.

The study addresses the following key research questions:

Are there gender differences in development priorities of local politicians?
Are there gender differences in the match between politicians’ and their parties’ development priorities?
Which factors influence the degree to which individual and political party priorities match? Are there gender difference in this influence?

Using data from surveys of BiH municipal/city party boards and political candidates from six parties in 19 municipalities/cities across both Entities in BiH, the study is designed to provide voters with information on development priorities as perceived by male and female candidates for the municipality/city councils/assemblies in the 2016 BiH local elections and how they differ from the official development priorities set forth by the municipal/city boards of the political parties that nominated them.

It provides the civil society, donors, researchers, and government agencies evidence to tailor the approaches to political party democratization and better integration of both men’s and women’s priorities in the policy-making. In addition, the study also provides the political parties evidence on the need for their increased efforts to better integrate both men’s and women’s priorities in their party priorities.

Issue Brief – Early Findings

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EPP Study – Fact Sheet

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