Zipper system
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zipper-system-179-7514936
title:
Zipper system
text:
The zipper system, also known as "vertical parity" or the "zebra system", is an electoral mechanism intended to enforce gender parity in countries using party-list proportional representation with closed lists. It requires that parties alternate between candidates of either gender on their candidate lists, meaning that 50% of the candidates on the list are women and 50% are men. The zipper system is applied to election laws with the goal of establishing gender parity. However, the mathematical m
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Electoral lists used for gender parity
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_system
date created:
2018-03-24T23:17:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T21:50:46Z
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