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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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Political Parties and Political Representation
2016Although Sweden is characterized by a stable formal framework for political representation, major changes during recent decades have affected the conditions in which political representation is exercised. A once orderly five-party system has evolved into an unwieldy eight-party system, and turnover in the Riksdag has increased.
Peter Esaiasson, Lena Wängnerud
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State Feminism and Political Representation [PDF]
, 2005 How can women maximise their political influence? Does state feminism enhance the political representation of women? Should feminism be established in state institutions to treat women's concerns? Written by experts in the field, this 2005 book uses an innovative model of political influence to construct answers to these and other questions in the long-
J. LOVENDUSKI +4 more
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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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From Form to Platform: The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics
Art Journal, 2005Held in the summer of 1989, the exhibition Magiciens de la terre was presented by its main curator, Jean-Hubert Martin, as the first truly planetary exhibition of contemporary art. It received a mitigated critical reception that underlined two contextual aspects of the exhibition: its inclusion in the long list of cultural events intended to mark the ...
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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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2010
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians ...
Susan C. Stokes +3 more
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Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians ...
Susan C. Stokes +3 more
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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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