Strength of Sanctions for Gender Quota

QoG code: qar_sstr

Sanctions are coded “strong” only if parties are stopped from participating in the election if they do not comply with the quota rules. If parties are fined or lose state funding, sanctions are coded as “weak.” Coded only for country-years where a quota with sanctions for noncompliance was present.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-10-02
Last updated by source
2017-08-16
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 45
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1990-2015

Country coverage

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  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cape Verde
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • France (1963-)
  • Greece
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Kenya
  • Korea, South
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Libya
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Nepal
  • North Macedonia
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tunisia
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1990 to 2015.