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(Im)Perfect Descriptive Representation: Slovenia in the Spotlight
Politics in Central Europe, 2022 The failure to ensure descriptive representation is one of the challenges facing democracy. In the literature, it is suggested that, among others, imperfect descriptive representation is connected to insufficient legitimacy as well as low trust in ...
Johannsen Lars +2 more
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The Composition of Descriptive Representation
American Political Science Review, 2023 How well do governments represent the societies they serve? A key aspect of this question concerns the extent to which leaders reflect the demographic features of the population they represent. To address this important issue in a systematic manner, we propose a unified approach for measuring descriptive representation.
JOHN GERRING +2 more
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Women’s Good Political Representation [PDF]
Genero, 2023 In this ‘state of the art’ mapping the major contours of three decades of politics and gender analysis, Celis and Childs re-make the case for women’s group representation. Drawing on their recent book, Feminist Democratic Representation (2020), they call
Karen Celis, Sarah Childs
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The Limits of Presence: Constraints on Women’s Political Repre- sentation in Serbia and Montenegro [PDF]
Genero, 2023 Women’s political representation has increased globally over the past few decades. Women are entering the political world in more significant numbers. This increase is visible among the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Anja Vojvodić
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Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2022 This paper focuses on the link between women’s civic engagement and elected political participation. The first part presents the theoretical aspects of both concepts – i.e.
Darina Dvornichenko
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The Impossible Stability? The Italian Lower House Parliamentary Elite After a “Decade of Crises”
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 The article explores recent changes in the Italian parliamentary elite thanks to a novel set of data on Italian MPs between 1946 and 2018. After a first discussion on some crucial long-term trends of Italian Lower House MPs (their turnover rate ...
Luca Verzichelli +3 more
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The mental representation of spatial descriptions [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1982 Two experiments investigated the mental representation of spatial descriptions. In Experiment 1, the subjects classified a series of diagrams, each presented after a spatial description, as either consistent or inconsistent with the description. They were then given an unexpected recognition test of their memory for the descriptions.
K, Mani, P N, Johnson-Laird
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Election Reform and Women’s Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S.
Politics and Governance, 2021 Ranked choice voting first gained a foothold in the U.S. during the Progressive Movement in the 20th century as calls for electoral reforms grew. Ranked choice voting was implemented in many cities across the U.S. in both single- and multi-seat districts.
Cynthia Richie Terrell +2 more
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Social Sciences, 2022 This paper seeks to analyse the potential for change in the gender quota law on corporate boards in Portugal. This is achieved by incorporating concepts and insights drawn from political science and the study of quotas in politics and adjusting these to ...
Sara Falcão Casaca +3 more
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Spatial Distance and Representation in Closed PR List: Revisiting the U-Curve Argument
Politics in Central Europe, 2023 The authors are testing the patterns of geographical representation in single nationwide district closed-list PR systems, in the framework of an earlier study made by Latner and McGann (2005), who suggested that MPs mostly reside in central metropolitan ...
Bursać Dejan, Radujko Dušan
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