We investigate whether term limits can help historically underrepresented groups, such as women, gain faster access to positions of political power. We exploit evidence from Italian local elections where, in a context of rapidly increasing women's presence in politics, mayoral term limits were...

Introduction -- Conceptual Developments -- Measurement of Conservatism for Empirical Research -- Conservatism and the Stock Market: Major Empirical Findings from Three Decades of Research -- Conservatism’s Role in the Italian Stock Market: Three Empirical Studies -- Concluding Remarks.