عنوان

Growth in Women's Political Representation:

شماره

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عنوان اصلي

Growth in Women's Political Representation:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Paxton, Pamela; Hughes, Melanie M.; Painter, Matthew A., II

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

A Longitudinal Exploration of Democracy, Electoral System, and Gender Quotas

متن يادداشت

The expansion of women's formal political representation ranks among the most significant trends in international politics of the last 100 years. Though women made steady political progress, substantial country-level variation exists in patterns of growth and change. In this paper, we develop longitudinal theories to examine how political factors affect women's political representation over time. We use latent growth curve models to assess the growth of women in politics in 110 countries from 1975 to 2000. We investigate how electoral systems, national-level gender quotas, and growth of democracy impact country-level trajectories of women's legislative representation. We find: (1) national quotas do affect women's political presence, but at a lower level than legislated by law; (2) the impact of a proportional representation system on women's political representation is steady over time; and (3) democracy, especially civil liberties, does not affect the level of women's political representation in the earliest period, but does impact the growth of women's political representation over time. These findings both reinforce and challenge prior cross-sectional models of women's political representation.

تاريخ نشر

2009

عنوان

UC Irvine

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y