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Race, Party, and Representation in Criminal Justice Politics
Journal of Politics, 2019What explains racial inequalities in law enforcement and criminal justice policy? I argue that political representation plays a key role. Most explanations of representation focus on partisanship or use a left-right scale to measure the effectiveness of ...
Laurel Eckhouse
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Gender Quotas, Women’s Representation, and Legislative Diversity
Journal of Politics, 2020Diversity in the characteristics of political leaders increases the quality of policy, perceptions of legitimacy, and accountability to constituents. Yet, increasing leaders’ diversity proves one of the most difficult challenges facing modern democracy ...
Tiffany D. Barnes, Mirya R. Holman
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The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics
American Political Science Review, 2017This paper theorizes three forms of bias that might limit women's representation: outright hostility, double standards, and a double bind whereby desired traits present bigger burdens for women than men.
D. Teele, Joshua L. Kalla, F. Rosenbluth
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Local Elections and Representation in the United States
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2019In recent years, there has been a surge in the study of representation and elections in local politics. Scholars have made progress on many of the empirical barriers that stymied earlier researchers. As a result, the study of representation and elections
C. Warshaw
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Journal of Politics, 2018
Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women? We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women’s political action committees to answer this question.
Melody Crowder-Meyer, Rosalyn Cooperman
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Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women? We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women’s political action committees to answer this question.
Melody Crowder-Meyer, Rosalyn Cooperman
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2017
Focusing explicitly on the dynamics of electoral representation, this chapter shows that scholarship about representation has been lively despite remaining at the fringe of mainstream international developments. Some precursors, such as Duverger, have failed to shape French debates about the issue even if their international standing has been immense ...
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Focusing explicitly on the dynamics of electoral representation, this chapter shows that scholarship about representation has been lively despite remaining at the fringe of mainstream international developments. Some precursors, such as Duverger, have failed to shape French debates about the issue even if their international standing has been immense ...
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Intersectional linked fate and political representation
Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2019Intersectional linked fate and political representation Sarah Allen Gershon, Celeste Montoya, Christina Bejarano and Nadia Brown d Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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Perspectives on Politics, 2020
The two traditional justifications for bicameralism are that a second legislative chamber serves a legislative-review function (enhancing the quality of legislation) and a balancing function (checking concentrated power and protecting minorities).
A. Abizadeh
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The two traditional justifications for bicameralism are that a second legislative chamber serves a legislative-review function (enhancing the quality of legislation) and a balancing function (checking concentrated power and protecting minorities).
A. Abizadeh
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