Articles by Mack Mariani

March 7, 2024

♀️ Ensuring the effectiveness of gender quotas in Ireland

Mack Mariani

Legislative gender quotas are effecting change in Irish politics. However, argue Fiona Buckley and Mack Mariani, without strong party leadership and political will, advances in women’s political representation can only go so far. To maintain progress, party leaders must prioritise women’s recruitment, nomination, and financial support as well as retain incumbent women

Mack Mariani

Professor of Political Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati

Mack serves as interim director of the honors program Philosophy, Politics, and the Public.

His research has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Politics and Gender, the International Political Science Review and the Journal of Irish Studies.

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