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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"substantive representation"”.
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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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The substantive representation of women in the Tanzanian parliament
… in the Tanzanian parliament has translated into substantive representation for women in terms of either process or outcome. It utilized the Tanzanian parliamentary database as its primary source of empirical data. From this it draws biographical details on the members of the parliaments, their …
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Substantive Representation of Women and its Consequences: The Passage of a Gender-Based-Violence Law in Rwanda
… 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 of the …
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Evaluating the Substantive Representation of Women and Domestic Violence Legislation in England and Wales: a Critical Path Approach
… represent women and instead, focuses on the representation process as a whole. This approach widens the scope beyond seeing women as a homogenous group, with uniform interests and unvarying political motivations. To do so, this thesis evaluates the substantive representation of women in …
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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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Representation: preferences, priorities, and tradeoffs
… 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 citizens, not …
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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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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… behavior. This study focused primarily on the substantive representation of African-Americans, especially during the post-Hurricane Katrina period. In this dissertation, the following questions were examined: Have the growing number of these legislators resulted in greater influence in state …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… behavior. This study focused primarily on the substantive representation of African-Americans, especially during the post-Hurricane Katrina period. In this dissertation, the following questions were examined: Have the growing number of these legislators resulted in greater influence in state …
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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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ICANN or ICANN't Represent Internet Users
… 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 to the …
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Immigrant Inclusion: Reframing Local Politics in Immigration Debates
… 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 these types of …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… of three studies on how social capital and the representation of members of traditionally under-represented groups affect health inequality in the US. A consequence of racial and ethnic diversity in America has been increased social inequality. Social inequality in health exists along gender, …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… 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 approaches have …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… 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 approaches have …
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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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Judges’ Gender and Judging in China
… that female judges can translate symbolic representation into substantive representation of women, but contribute to the long-standing observations about how judges of different backgrounds actually decide cases. This PhD dissertation follows this research tradition and examines the effect …
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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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The Women's Equality Party: Sustainability, Longevity, and Impacts
… to assess WEP’s abilities to descriptively and substantively represent women, and the party’s unique positioning at the crossroads between movement and institutionalised politics. Ultimately, this thesis looks at how WEP utilises its institutional positioning as a political party, and if …