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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"descriptive representation"”.
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The Substantive Representation of Women in Turkey: Examining the Impact of Gender and Intersecting Identities in the Legislative Arena
In this dissertation, I studied political representation of women, particularly women’s substantive representation. Women’s exclusion from politics has been the unprecedented fact in history. The last decades have witnessed an increase in women’s political engagement and their election to public …
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Substantive Representation of Women and its Consequences: The Passage of a Gender-Based-Violence Law in Rwanda
… this thesis examines how increased women's "descriptive representation" can lead to "substantive representation" in the context of a political and social environment supportive of women's political inclusion. In addition to the increased political presence of women in parliament as a result …
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De Panizze ao RDA: um estudo sobre a evolução da catalogação nos cursos de Biblioteconomia no Brasil
… objective: to map as menus of the discipline Descriptive Representation of Information, of the Courses of Librarianship in Brazil, no intention to reveal a articulation of the new cataloging of new formats bibligraficos (MARC, RDA, FRBR, Dublin Core). And as the specific objectives: to rescue …
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Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation
… translated into a new high-water mark for the descriptive representation of women in Congress. While it is clear that female candidates were more successful in getting on the ballot during this election cycle than ever before, what remains unclear is how voters perceived the diverse traits …
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A pseudo maximal square moving line tracking algorithm
… individual lines and producing a structure-descriptive representation for every line extracted. The algorithm could be considered as an extension of Wakayama's Maximal Square Moving (MSM) algorithm[37] since pseudo maximal squares are substituted for maximal squares, but essentially, it is …
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Essays on political representation
… our understanding of the link between political representation and policy outcomes. In particular, this collection of essays examines how the institutional arrangements and formal processes that precede and initiate political representation either promote or hinder the representation of various …
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Moterų lyderių fenomenas radikalios dešinės partijose: Italijos atvejis /
… this study is the combination of the strategic descriptive representation theory, and the descriptive presentation theory, which is essential in ensuring that the faulty logic of grouping all women into the same category is avoided. The theory of strategic descriptive representation helps us …
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Representation: preferences, priorities, and tradeoffs
… citizens are willing to make tradeoffs between descriptive and substantive representation. Answering this question is critical to efforts to maximize satisfaction with government for both minorities and members of the majority. This study makes four main contributions. First, it investigates how …
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A Study of Similarity and Analogical Decision-Making in Collaborative Design
… analogy in design communication and propose a descriptive representation of the analogical decision-making process in the context of engineering design. It is proposed that social, cultural, and contextual knowledge are brought to bear on statements of need in the form of analogy as a means to …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… dissertation advances the theory of democratic representation by separating descriptive representation from substantive representation. Although there has been a substantial amount of research on the relationship between gender and legislative representation, there are conflicting findings about …
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Women's Substantive Representation In Latin America
… death than their male counterparts. If women's representation is improving, why has their quality of life remained the same? Using quantitative methods and a sample of 18 Latin American countries over a time span of twenty years, this work evaluates the possible affects electoral, political …
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Memória revelada em vinis: diagnóstico do acervo 33,045 e 78 rotações do acervo da Rádio Tabajara da Paraíba
… the use of equipment such as digital camera, descriptive representation chips. The collected data were presented in an analytical and descriptive perspective. The results show the peculiarities of the disks and the precarious situation in which it is the collection, the result of misguided …
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ICANN or ICANN't Represent Internet Users
… I evaluated the Board on the dimensions of descriptive, substantive, and formal representation (Pitkin 1967). Evaluation of ICANN's descriptive representation focused on the Board members' sex, educational backgrounds, and nationalities and compared the geographic representation on the Board …
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Immigrant Inclusion: Reframing Local Politics in Immigration Debates
… environments. In my first paper, I ask whether descriptive representation leads to substantive representation, that is, whether mayors from racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to pass inclusive policy. I find that Asian, and to some extent, Latino mayors are more likely to pass …
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Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections
… make between electability and different types of representation that the literature contends are Black voters’ primary preferences at the voting booth. In chapter five, I argue that Black voters put preferences for electability over descriptive representation. In chapter six, I examine the …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… the effect that the gender quota has had on descriptive, substantive, and symbolic representation of Iraqi women in the post-2003 Iraqi elections. In doing so, it draws on three bodies of scholarship: democratisation theory, feminist theory, and the study of political gender quotas. These …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… the effect that the gender quota has had on descriptive, substantive, and symbolic representation of Iraqi women in the post-2003 Iraqi elections. In doing so, it draws on three bodies of scholarship: democratisation theory, feminist theory, and the study of political gender quotas. These …
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"Behind Closed Doors": Identity and Influence in State-Level Legislative Decision-Making on School Discipline
This thesis critically examines state-level legislative decision-making in Virginia, New York, and Texas, with a particular focus on school discipline reform. Specifically, it explores the extent to which the race and gender of state legislators correlate with policy decisions concerning …
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Statehouse Mosaics and the American Electorate: How State Legislatures Affect Political Participation
<p>Comparatively few studies have explored how variations in state governing institutions influence voting behavior. Utilizing lower chamber state legislative election returns from the years 2000 through 2010, and the 2002 through 2010 GSS data series, this dissertation focuses on how US state …
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Women as Party Leaders: Are the Barriers Partisan?
<p>Even though women make up roughly 51% of the population of the United States, they are underrepresented in all branches of American government. Although there has been recent literature on women in politics and women and parties, very little has been done on women in party leadership. Research …
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