Working group Gendered representation in Turkey Add to calendar 2025-10-20 16:30 2025-10-20 18:00 Europe/Rome Gendered representation in Turkey Seminar Room 3 Badia Fiesolana YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Oct 20 2025 16:30 - 18:00 CEST Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana Organised by Department of Political and Social Sciences Organised by the Gender Working Group, this event hosts a talk with EUI Researcher Deniz Tufur. We build a longitudinal, candidate-level panel of all MP lists for AKP, CHP, HDP, and MHP across Türkiye’s 2007–2018 elections by scraping YSK’s finalised candidate lists (Kesin Aday Listeleri), linking names over time, merging district–party results, and inferring gender from names. Using this panel, we audit three stages where bias can arise under closed-list PR: entry ranks (women start lower), survival (women are dropped at higher rates), and incumbency (male incumbents enjoy larger marginal re-nomination/reelection advantages). Substantively, we show gender gaps emerge primarily through elite gatekeeping—initial placement and retention—rather than voter selection, extending PR research on list ranking and quota enforcement to Türkiye. We also show that ideology matters—HDP shows the smallest/insignificant drop penalty for women while CHP’s is sizable—however, party fixed effects account for more of the variance, underscoring party-specific practices over broad ideology. Finally, an RDD indicates a large statistically significant reelection premium for marginal male winners (~0.44) versus a smaller, statistically insignificant premium for women (~0.27). In sum, we contribute a reusable panel and a staged framework mirroring Smith et. al (2025), to pinpoint where party-driven inequality materialises and how these mechanisms might differ by party.