Heywood, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-6548-6713 (2021) Increasing female participation in municipal elections via the use of local radio in conflict-affected settings: The case of the West Bank municipal elections 2017. Journalism, 22 (7). pp. 1702-1719. ISSN 1464-8849
Abstract
The 2017 West Bank Municipal elections were framed by locally-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the Palestinian Authorities – albeit to a lesser extent – in terms of the desirability of increasing female participation in them in two particular ways: participation as representatives and participation as voters. Both aspects of participation were supported by extensive radio campaigns conducted by locally-based NGOs. The effectiveness of these campaigns and the approaches used form the basis of this article. Using a mixed methods approach consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data, it concludes that radio has endemic socio-technical advantages for reaching women, particularly in conflict-affected areas, and that broadcasting content aimed at women by women is essential in terms of increasing their representation and voting.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journalism. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). | ||||
Keywords: | Radio; women; NGOs; West Bank; elections; participation | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2018 09:06 | ||||
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2021 15:06 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918820752 |
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