This project combines V-Dem and World Bank data to test whether educational gender parity and egalitarian democracy predict women’s representation in governance more strongly than proportional electoral system design across six world regions from 2003 onward. Correlation analysis, an animated year-by-year visualization, and comparative median and IQR tables for selected affluent and notable countries examine the hypothesis. The core finding: educational equity and egalitarian democracy are stronger regional predictors than electoral system design – but both frameworks break down at the country level, where place-specific legal structures, cultural norms, and historical factors are doing explanatory work that neither model fully captures.
The portfolio page includes a full project narrative, key findings, and figures.
Languages: R
| Tools: RStudio | GitHub |
| Packages: vdemdata | wbstats | countrycode | dplyr | ggplot2 | gganimate | gifski | psych | glue |
Synthesizing cross-national longitudinal data from multiple sources to evaluate competing theoretical frameworks – identifying where regional-level patterns break down at finer scales and surfacing the place-specific variables that aggregate analyses obscure.
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