Concept information
Preferred term
women's representation
Definition(s)
- Women's representation explores the gendered aspects of representative or parliamentary democracy (as well as other less democratic regime types)—specifically, how the interests and aspirations of women qua women are reflected in patterns of public office holding or in public policy outcomes. One primary question within contemporary research concerns the connection between the numbers of women in office and the substance of politics: Does an increase in the number of women elected (or in the governing elite) lead to changes regarding the character of politics or the content of policy? Following in the path suggested by Hanna Pitkin's The Concept of Representation (1967), the scholars who address these issues commonly distinguish between a descriptive (quantitative) aspect and a substantive (qualitative) aspect of the representation. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Women's Representation]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Z68GZCVM-6
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