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Rethinking women’s substantive representation [PDF]
Representation, 2007 This article seeks to rethink how scholars have traditionally studied women's substantive representation. It outlines a framework that aims to replace questions like ‘Do women represent women?’ with ones like ‘Who claims to act for women?’ and ‘Where ...
Kantola, Johanna +7 more
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The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland [PDF]
Politics & Gender, 2019 This article examines the substantive representation of women in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections. By looking at the case of the Black Protests, in which tens of thousands of demonstrators, wearing black, defended women’s rights by ...
Gwiazda, Anna
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Religiosity and Representation: Religiosity’s Effect on Women’s Substantive Representation
The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 2022 To what degree does the religiosity of a representative’s constituency affect substantive representation for women? Religion has long been known to have effects on gender equality and it is shown herein that more religious populations will indeed drive ...
Creel, Nicholas
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, 2022 Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages
JOSHI, Devin K.
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MPs’ Principals and the Substantive Representation of Disadvantaged Immigrant Groups [PDF]
West European Politics, 2018 This paper provides an alternative understanding of the substantive representation of immigrant-origin citizens than previous work in the "politics of presence" tradition.
Carsten Schwemmer, Lucas Geese
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Substantive Representation of Women: Empirical Evidence
British Journal of Political ScienceWe identify women’s revealed preferences for legislative proposals to investigate substantive representation of women. We then examine whether female or male politicians in parliament are more responsive to revealed female preferences using data on 47 ...
Kläy, Yves +3 more
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Political Representation of National Minorities: A Case Study of Minority Parties in Serbia [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis explores the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of national minorities. Previous studies have emphasized the importance of descriptive representation and justified the need for affirmative action measures such as ...
Loncar, Jelena
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Interest groups and effective substantive representation [PDF]
Interest Groups & AdvocacyWhile interest groups are often portrayed as vehicles of political representation, skeptical voices highlight the political inequalities and representational biases in the interest group system.
Leech, Beth L. +4 more
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Representation of women in the parliament of the Weimar republic: Evidence from roll call votes [PDF]
, 2014 This is the post-print version of the article which has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input in Politics and Gender. Copyright @ Cambridge University Press.In modern democracies,
Hansen, Martin Ejnar +3 more
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Better Procedures for Fairer Outcomes: Youth Quotas in Parliaments
Intergenerational Justice Review, 2015 In this article, I put forward an instrumental justification for the introduction of youth quotas in parliaments on grounds of justice between coexisting generations.
Juliana Bidadanure
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