Institutional transparency and gender: Analysing the municipalities of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Author:

Pano Esther12,Magre Jaume12,Pons Llorenç1,Casajuana Sara1

Affiliation:

1. Fundació Carles Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain

2. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in transparency policies and, concomitantly, the need to include a gender perspective in analysing the actions of public authorities, the intersection of both fields has attracted limited attention from the research community. The scarce contributions to this topic do not provide a framework that supports an empirical examination of institutional transparency and gender, and therefore, the implementation of these policies remains unexplored. This paper contributes to the debate on institutional transparency and gender perspective by developing an index of gender inclusion in transparency policies based on the information available on official local government websites, and by identifying and analysing factors that drive variations in the municipal councils. The research focuses on the municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB) and includes other cities for comparative purposes. The findings indicate that the number of inhabitants of the municipality, the presence of women in its political bodies and institutional factors, and particularly the volume of the budget, are positively associated with the incorporation of a gender perspective on institutional websites.

Publisher

IOS Press

Subject

Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication,Information Systems

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