Women's Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012

被引：131

作者：

Sundstrom, Aksel ^{[1
]}

Paxton, Pamela ^{[2
]}

Wang, Yi-Ting ^{[1
,3
]}

Lindberg, Staffan I. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

[2] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[3] Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Tainan, Taiwan

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2017年 / 94卷

基金：

瑞典研究理事会;

关键词：

women; empowerment; index; rights; gender; global; GENDER INEQUALITY; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS; DEVELOPMENT GOAL; HUMAN-RIGHTS; REPRESENTATION; AGRICULTURE; DIFFUSION; DEMOCRACY; AGENCY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.016

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

The political empowerment of women is a societal process crucial to development and progress. The V-Dem women's political empowerment index (WPEI) provides information about women's civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation globally. Spanning from 1900 to 2012, three dimensions of empowerment, and over 170 countries, it is among the most comprehensive measures of women's empowerment available. This paper presents a conceptualization of women's political empowerment and provides an overview of the construction of the index and operationalization of its three sub-dimensions: Women's civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation. Compared to other indices measuring women's empowerment, such as the GDI, the GEM, the GII, and the CIRI data on human rights, the V-Dem index allows more precise measurement and is superior in temporal scope and coverage of countries of the Global South. The paper demonstrates the benefits of this new index and its sub-dimensions through several empirical illustrations. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：321 / 335

页数：15

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