Representing Women in Parliament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Women in Parliament write by Marian Sawer. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Representing Women in Parliament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by a major international team of authors, this new study features twelve chapters on both new and established parliaments, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It tests the latest theories about women's political representation within Westminster style assemblies and is clearly organized into three key sections.
Equality in Politics
Equality in Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equality in Politics write by Julie Ballington. This book was released on 2008. Equality in Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Representing Women?
Representing Women? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Women? write by Mercedes Mateo Diaz. This book was released on 2005. Representing Women? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work discusses questions on political participation, representation and legitimacy in the European Union national parliaments. Three major empirical questions structure the book: What affects women's presence in parliaments?, Does the number of women in parliament have an effect? And are women in parliament representing women? Empirical evidences show that institutional reforms need a 'minimal environment' in terms of socio-economic development so as to prove effective. As opposed to the critical mass theory, claiming that a few representatives cannot have an impact on the political outcomes, here the empirical evidences suggest that smaller groups can also influence the different components of the legislative process. The last part turns to the fundamental question of whether a parliament that is descriptively representative, i.e. in which the parliamentarians share certain characteristics with the voters, also is a substantively descriptive parliament, i.e. in which the parliamentarians mirror the voters' opinions.
Women in Parliament
Women in Parliament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Parliament write by Julie Ballington. This book was released on 2005. Women in Parliament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This updated edition of Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers Handbook covers the ground of women's access to the legislature in three steps: It looks into the obstacles women confront when entering Parliament be they political, socio-economic or ideological and psychological. It presents solutions to overcome these obstacles, such as changing electoral systems and introducing quotas, and it details strategies for women to influence politics once they are elected to parliament, an institution which is traditionally male dominated. The first Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers handbook was produced as part of IDEA's work on women and political participation in 1998. Since its release in English in 1998, there has been an ongoing interest and demand for the handbook, and responding to the request for the translation of the handbook, IDEA has produced Spanish, French and Indonesian language versions and a Russian overview of the handbook during 2002-2003. Since the first handbook was published, the picture regarding women's political participation has slowly changed. Overall the past decade has seen gradual progress with regard to women's presence in national parliaments. This second edition incorporates relevant global changes in the past years presenting new and updated case studies.--
Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments
Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments write by Devin K. Joshi. This book was released on 2022-08-03. Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple descriptive representation, however, is whether outcomes for women are improving. Rather than focusing on numerical representation, the chapters in this book focus on the substantive representation of women. In other words, what do women and men parliamentarians do to advance women’s well-being and gender equality? Using semi-structured interviews, the author of each chapter examines these efforts in the context of a specific Asian country. The case studies include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste. The book is an essential resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and the politics of gender.
