IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cdebxx/v26y2018i2-3p267-275.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Gender equality and electoral corruption: some insights from the local elections in Macedonia

Author

Listed:
  • Daniel Stockemer

Abstract

This research note highlights that gender equality is a necessary condition for eradicating petty forms of electoral corruption. Drawing on primary observations of an Albanian electoral district in the second round of the municipal elections in Macedonia in 2017, I illustrate that a sophisticated and well-conceived electoral code, as well as competent staff at the electoral station could be insufficient to eradicate all forms of corruption completely. Despite their best efforts, election boards were frequently unable to prevent family and group voting of the traditional segments of the population. Even after being told not to do so, traditional men either frequently assisted one or several traditional women in filling out the ballot or literally filled it out for them.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniel Stockemer, 2018. "Gender equality and electoral corruption: some insights from the local elections in Macedonia," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2-3), pages 267-275, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdebxx:v:26:y:2018:i:2-3:p:267-275
    DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2018.1537618
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/25739638.2018.1537618
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/25739638.2018.1537618?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cdebxx:v:26:y:2018:i:2-3:p:267-275. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cdeb .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.