A significant number of gender scholars focus on the substantive effects of women's representation. A good portion of this literature focuses on whether female legislators behave in ways that foster women's representation. We argue one area that needs more research is to understand the...

This paper examines the decision by the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada to introduce a pure proportional representation system for the 2006 legislative election. I argue that both office-seeking and policy-seeking explanations cannot account for this change. Instead, we need to understand how the...