Women in Parliaments: Descriptive and Substantive Representation

被引：374
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作者：
Wangnerud, Lena [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Gothenburg, Dept Polit Sci, Gothenburg, Sweden
来源：
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE | 2009年 / 12卷
关键词：
women's interests; gender equality; established democracies; feminist awareness; CRITICAL MASS; POLITICAL REPRESENTATION; GENDER STEREOTYPES; STATE; NUMBERS; HOUSE; SEX;
D O I：
10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.053106.123839
中图分类号：
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号：
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要：
This essay reviews two research programs. The first focuses on variations in the number of women elected to national parliaments in the world (descriptive representation), and the second focuses on effects of women's presence in parliament (substantive representation). The theory of the politics of presence (Phillips 1995) provides reasons for expecting a link between descriptive and substantive representation. The safest position would he to say that results are "mixed" when it comes to empirical support for the theory of the politics of presence. However, when a large number of studies covering a wide set of indicators on the importance of gender in the parliamentary process are piled together, the picture that emerges shows that female politicians contribute to strengthening the position of women's interests.
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